I almost always browse on a dialup (56k) and always have at least 5 perlmonks windows which I continually refresh and stuff, and response is pretty dang fast, even on my slow connection. The only thing that's ever slowed down for me are really really big nodes, because I have my node-depth at 99 and node threshold at 100000. The only other thing that's kind of slowed for me is my message inbox, but that's cause I got some 400 messages in there (and yes, I do need them all).

 
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Disclaimer: Don't blame. It came from inside the void
perl -e "$q=$_;map({chr unpack qq;H*;,$_}split(q;;,q*H*));print;$q/$q;"