The trouble is because we live in a rural area of a huge country (yes, the US). It's not that the internet svcks for everyone, it's just that everyone here has the internet, in some form or another. In Okinawa, I was the first in my building to have fiber optic installed, so I got it free of charge for the duration of my lease. On the other hand, Okinawa, being an Island, had a limited number of trunks leading to the rest of the world and if one went down, the entire island's bandwidth was cut by that amount.
Anyway, that's all totally off-topic anyway. I just wanted to report the "bug" just in case there was something DarkOne could do about it. If not, no big deal.