This is interesting! It makes me wonder if it could also explain why AJAX based google apps like Gmail totally don't work in Addis Abeba in neighboring Ethiopia

This is interesting! It makes me wonder if it could also explain why AJAX based google apps like Gmail totally don't work in Addis Abeba in neighboring Ethiopia, even on the speediest of hotel wifis (really, the download speed was not bad, except for the initial lag). And I mean totally don't work ... gmail.com just gives a blank page, while the plain html version works. I have been wondering if it could be something with limits of the number of multiple connections, or even requests, affecting the AJAX requests in the background, or some kind of unfortunate timeout limit in the javascript layer. Not sure, but with this info, I'm of course thinking more about the lag. Would be interesting with more details on how it affects typical AJAX apps!