The issue most likely is bandwidth. I can remember living in Taiwan as recently as 2001 when the access to United States websites was often slowed by the narrow

The issue most likely is bandwidth. I can remember living in Taiwan as recently as 2001 when the access to United States websites was often slowed by the narrow pipes of cables across the Pacific Ocean. The Marshall Islands, with their low population, are not on the most favored path across the Pacific for high-bandwidth cables. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_submarine_communications_cables http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_submarine... http://asia-pacific-map-2012.telegeography.com/ http://asia-pacific-map-2012.telegeography.com/