User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Battle for the Net: Internet Slowdown/@comment-25039743-20140911000335/@comment-25035274-20140911182836

That's a fair enough assessment. The problem, though, is that most people aren't even aware of the issue. For the average Internet user, if they started noticing a lot of slow-down online, they'd just assume something was wrong with the web-sites, and would eventually go elsewhere.