Idaho Internet: How Slow Can You Go

Barry Ramsay, who runs his small manufacturing business here between two mountains, remembers the day his Internet connection crashed for several hours. Work crews had to ride up in snowmobiles to discover the problem. “They said that bears had been rubbing against the towers,” Ramsay said. In this mountainous state, where some connections depend on line of sight, even snow and fog can disrupt the signals. And, according to a new study, they are among the problems that have earned Idaho an unfortunate distinction: It had the slowest Internet speeds in the country earlier this year for residential customers who were downloading things like games — a “dismal” average of 318 kilobytes per second/ Katharine Q. Seelye , New York Times. More here. (AP file photo, for illustrative purposes)

Question: What do you do when your computer is unusually slow downloading files?