Ok, here is a quick test. I am pretty sure none of us has any portion of cisco site in our caches. Copy&paste this link into your browser and see how long it takes for this page to completely load. It has no flash, nothing complex: a bit of text and a few images, very much like things used to be in the 90s:

http://www.cisco.com/web/partners/index.html

Takes about 4 seconds on my 4Mbit/sec connection with AMD X2 4400+ and 3GB of RAM.

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