# It seems really slow out today, or is it just me? (ha ha)

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**Created:** [June 7, 2000, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-really-slow-out-today-or-is-it-just-me-ha-ha/21674 "2000-06-07T16:59:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Show\_Biz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Show\_Biz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Show_Biz)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-really-slow-out-today-or-is-it-just-me-ha-ha/21674/1 "2000-06-07T16:59:02Z")

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I don’t want to burst anyones’s balloon, since I see everyone else praising the speed, but I’ve seen my last post go over a minute before returning. I’m on IE 5, with AltaVisa service running at “115200” which is 57K v.90

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**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-really-slow-out-today-or-is-it-just-me-ha-ha/21674/2 "2000-06-11T09:07:12Z")

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It’s just you, Showby.

Well, no, actually, it’s probably the time of day.

I do the vast majority of my posting late at night (it’s now 2:04 AM… I expect awakeness for another hour, at least), and I expect that there’re fewer people on then. Well, I know that there are 'Dopers from all different time zones, but I have no other explanation. Y’see, it’s always got a good speed for me from aroun 11:00-ish 'til… well… whenever I got to bed. And I only have a 28.8 connection.