I am in Cuba for a week for business and pleasure. Internet here is, unsurprisingly, incredibly scarce and insanely expensive. Even for foreign businesses, 1mb connections can cost in the thousands of dollars a month.
In my downtime, I have tried surfing the web, and every experience under the sun has been pretty painful, even for sites technically optimized for slow connections like Gmails HTML view.
But damn it, I´ve been browsing HN just as well as if I had been back home.
Thanks, dang