Internet Irritations #1: Mediafire

I would say "for some reason, everyone has decided to adopt Mediafire as their online file storage facility of choice" but in this case, that "some reason" is simply because the site offers hosting and recipient downloads for free (no sign up is necessary though if you want to create an account, you can).
I'll admit, when Mediafire first appeared, it was robust, offering maximum download speeds for a single download, with justified fluctuation on each subsequent acquisition (don't get greedy, yo), now however; its position as a decent alternative to some of the more well known sites ceases to be. In the last few months, I've been lucky to breach 6 or 7kb/s and as the modem seems almost inactive, the download decides to give up after no more than 10%. Unfortunately, the trend continues and every fucker has embraced Mediafire like flies to shit.

Hey, look people, today I made it to 11.4kb/s.
This cap was taken before overall failure at 4%. Kewl.