Internet road rage

[OminousCloud]

I usually do something else while my pages load so there's no rage here unlike the link below.


Warning: The following video link contains explicit language, click at your own discretion.

[wizz-o-matic]

Usually I'm a calm type, except if there's something important that I'm searching/need from the net.
Like few days ago, when I was waiting for my exam results, which were damn late, and my net was so damn slow due to my neighbors annoying with downloads. I was quite irritated and paranoid that day

[Fabala]

I hear you on that >.> Accessing my Uni's website at the same time as every other student just to sign up for tutorials sucks. And checking to see if I'd been accepted was worse. Their server couldn't handle the demand. It kicked me out of the queue repeatedly, then crashed for most of an hour. Oh the stress levels!

[Mayonnaise-Senpai]

I have "internet road rage". I am extremely impatient. But sometimes when I wait, I preoccupy myself.

[Eris]

I hear you on that >.> Accessing my Uni's website at the same time as every other student just to sign up for tutorials sucks. And checking to see if I'd been accepted was worse. Their server couldn't handle the demand. It kicked me out of the queue repeatedly, then crashed for most of an hour. Oh the stress levels!

I know exactly what you mean. Sweden has this centralized system for signing up for uni courses and programs. So, every year EVERYONE accesses this system all at once. It almost never works, and goes down at random, so that nobody can sign up. They usually have to postpone the dead line for signing up on courses for at least a week so that everyone can get through.

It is SO frustrating. This year I tried and tried the whole day and finally, 4 FRICKIN' AM I finally got through!

[Fabala]

Same here. Bloody UAC.

[Manhattan_Project_2000]

Try living on dialup and a 366 computer for 7 years.

1) Do you mean a 386?
2) It seems highly unlikely you'd be able to run an graphical internet browser on a 386. Therefore, problems with speed would be pretty negligible unless you are downloading programs.

[Drifter Uk]

my internets pretty slow, so i got used to spending ages waiting for pages to load
it does get very annoying whe im trying to work tho, cause it generally causes the computer to lag.

[Anpan Hayase]

Most of the time I'm patient. But other times situations play out like this;

Me: -clicks on link and waits.-
Me: -still waits-
Me: -clicks Refresh-
Me: -clicks Refresh-
Me: -clicks Refresh-
Me: -clicks Refresh-
Me: -clicks Refresh-
Me: What the @#$%!? Stupid piece of @#$%!!
Me: -Subtly turns off computer.-

[Datenshi]

Usually I just open a book and try to will the darn thing out of my mind for a few minutes. If that doesn't work I wait patiently for a few minutes and throw my computer out the window.

[Cancre]

Most of the time I'm patient. But other times situations play out like this;

Me: -clicks on link and waits.-
Me: -still waits-
Me: -clicks Refresh-
Me: -clicks Refresh-
Me: -clicks Refresh-
Me: -clicks Refresh-
Me: -clicks Refresh-
Me: What the @#$%!? Stupid piece of @#$%!!
Me: -Subtly turns off computer.-

sounds like me ah i hate dial up always waiting i mean i can handle it but seriously sometimes it's just like what did i ever do to you god

[~*Red*~]

For starters, I'm all calm and stuff, but when it kinda gets too overwhelming, I get pissed at my laptop and want to hurl it across my room.

[Ranshiin]

It's less of an issue these days when most people have broadband, it was more common back in the modem days. Now it's mostly server issues that provoke internet road rage. When pages reset at random or something like that.

Don't get me started on dial-up modems.

On a whole my home (and work) internet is both quite fast and fairly stable. But because of that, the times my internet phails I go pretty berserk at my computer. Such things as waving my hand up at the screen (In a "WTH? COME ON! NO WAY!" gesture, much the same thing I do when I get overtaken on Trackmania), kicking the desk, cursing.

Once I did pick up my mouse and hurl it at the wall because for the whole day my ISP decided it was going to use my router as a spamming post for its bandwidth lag. The next day I had to buy a new mouse; I threw it that hard.

I'm annoyed enough my line runs at 1/4 the supposed speed, let alone sometimes it decides not to work at all. Hmpf.

[LaranaSarahLei]

I listen to music normally, and that helps me stay calm..

If I have to sit in silence...then yes, sometimes I get 'internet roadrage'...but only because there is nothing for me to focus on.

[Darklord]

I cant handle the 'wait'.

[honeysenpai17]

Dial up ,is too slow or the connections to the internet is either hard to repair, link or there's no connections.

Pop-up ads, they're so annoying if you don't/have have pop-up blocker.

[Exquiro]

I'm British. If something doesn't go my way, I make a cup of tea. If it's not done within the time it takes me to make said cup of tea, then I make another one. And so on.

[Myrra]

You've just described me almost perfectly Eris But I don't hurl furniture around, I actually thrash my computer I can't help it, my computer is an ancient piece of trash and I can't afford a new one >.<; So I can't help but get angry and punch it every time the page doesn't load or if the page has an error on it I do the scheduled maitenance for it and even have all that protection for it, but it still sucks >_<; Looks like it's time to get a new one!!(when I have the money).

I have a lot of the same issues, old computer, on stupid dial-up and the darn programmes that are supposed to help seem to hinder me further.
I try to multi-task so that I don't notice how slow things are moving, but that doesn't always help.
Someday when I can afford a new computer and a Broadband line, I'll be a much happier camper

Hopefully

[mississippibaby]

im not a patient person so when that does happen i just try to do something else or i have music playing. im not a violent person so i dont get angry

[Perpetual Specter]

Well, I'm a naturally very calm person and can control my anger very well, so internet road rage is not one of my problems. I had dial-up for years and it was just terribly slow, especially when trying to watch any videos online or loading large gif images. However, despite this, I always kept my cool and just waited for it to load or went somewhere else. We have broadband now though and I have to say that it really is so much better than dial-up ever was still. I'm really glad we switched.

[Amray]

I am a very patient person. I can easily wait a couple of seconds for a page to be displayed. I'm too silent and relaxed to go around mashing the 'refresh' button and kicking my PC into oblivion.

But yeah..