While an ssh window is usable, and the google home page isn't very busy, so many interactive sites are filled with massive quantities of javascripts and the like that it takes forever. Yahoo mail isn't too bad, and actually one of the worst is GMail. I must of downloaded close to 300k just to get started (not a scientific measure, just seat of my pants). That takes minutes on a dialup line. Then there's the resource usage. At first I was going to try and use the computer already setup here, but since it only had 256MB of memory, the machine was so loaded that even scrolling a listing at eBay was painful.

For now I'm keeping my online use to a bare minimum just to keep my frustration level at a minimum, but I truely feel sorry for people who are connecting that way on a regular basis.