Give me a break. The purpose of broadband is so that nothing has any latency when you're not on dial-up. Except user-initiated mega downloads, and they occur

Give me a break. The purpose of broadband is so that nothing has any latency when you're not on dial-up. Except user-initiated mega downloads, and they occur at the maximum connection rate the hardware can handle. At bandwidth costs anybody can afford. Just like with dial-up, why settle for less instantaneous performance than the hardware can handle? Just to make it so lesser geeks can participate? The hallmark of insufficient web "engineering" has always been the completeness of the failure to pre-deploy on dial-up.