Blame the Internet’s legacy systems if Jay Glatfelter falls asleep Thursday mornings.
Co-host of an online audio show about “Lost,” Glatfelter must wait about 40 minutes to finish posting his program to the Internet in the hours after ABC’s Wednesday night broadcast. If he were downloading it as his listeners do, the same file would take only a few minutes over a cable modem.
“At 3 in the morning, that’s really brutal,” said Glatfelter, 21, who lives in Raleigh, N.C. “It’s an extra 40 minutes and you want to go to sleep.”
The information superhighway isn’t truly equal in both directions. Cable and phone companies typically sell asymmetrical Internet services to households, reserving the bulk of the lanes for downloading movies and other files and leaving the shoulders at most for people to share, or upload, files with others.
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