Due to the heat and rolling black outs here in California, the myspace servers have been hit hard. I think that's probably why the internet in general is so slow.
I'd take the 6 year old with an attitude. Nothing like beating small children with soft nerf bats or something. Or making them play some sort of sport and tiring them out. Soccer is always the best. They can run around for hours and eventually they'll crash. Unless they're my little brother. That kid has insane amounts of energy. It's pretty crazy.