The NHL on ETC

ETC is the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation, responsible for many tech items in the country including internet. I was sent a link to look at a few days ago where it described a country (I don't remember which one) that was enabling legislation requiring a high-speed connection for ALL citizens of the country. This right was going to be entrenched in the legislation that governs rights of citizens in many other areas. I imagine the ISP's in that country will fight that one unless the same exorbitant fees are then submitted by the government rather than individuals for the service. With ETC, the bandwidth is so poor that watching streaming video is out of the question. As to why the infrastructure is so immature for internet is unclear and it is not worth blaming any one organization ... that's just the way it is. With that said, the SlingBox route to watching hockey is out of the question, not to mention the fact that 7:30PM games at home start at 2:30AM here :). So my only choice is to watch the scores on TSN the next morning. The NHL web site is so busy it is not low-bandwidth friendly. On a scale of 1-10, the NHL site is about 2 for low-bandwidth countries/locations and TSN is about a 9. Also, the section of the page containing scores that appears as one goes to TSN is painted first whereas on the NHL it is next to (if not the!) last to be displayed. I figure that I could wait the 2.5 hours for the scores to appear at the NHL site which, in a time span, is very close to the length of time the game took to play. Ottawa 7 Tampa Bay 1 ... sweet! A hat trick for Michalek! David T. ... so sorry about the sweep. I have sent you a handful of text messages but you may not pay any attention to them in the midst of your depression caused by said sweep. I just went to the MLB site for some details on the post-season and the SAME behaviour as the NHL site. ON TSN I did notice that the Phillies beat the Dodgers in game one. For me, just desserts would be the Yankees losing to the Dodgers in the world series with Joe Torre at the helm for LA :)