Internet Surfing

How much time one should spend in surfing the internet? This is not typical question of how much time you should spend at your gym or with your family and is not about spending "quality time together". This is simply question of how much internet time you can afford. Another day I was reading the blog of Grady Booch on IBM DeveloperWorks and I was impressed with the amount of research he does on internet. That is definately not possible unless you spend at least a few hours on internet and browsing the sites. Agreed, Grady Booch probably has more brain than average human beings and possibly could remember more things over a period of time (which is an understatement, he has been around for very long time and is not dead yet !).
I generally like to use office internet for surfing (saves family 'quality time') and speed is much better. Unfortunately, I do not get much time in office to do it. At home, like many other 'infotech-savvy' Indians, I use the VSNL dial-up (yes we live in caves and use lap-top batteries to start the fire! Talk about spread of technology to developing nations...). Now surfing internet on dial-up is really a time consuming affair. Finding ordinary information such as PDA based GSM cellphones, can easily become an hour long operation with dial-up. (and we are not counting Mrs. Kulkarni, whose looks make you feel you have been days in front of computer).
This simply rules out real valuable research on internet, like for example, most viewed porn site, which could take probably more than couple of hours. I recently decided to put at least 3-hrs every week on internet to various research and keep myself up-to-date about what is happening around the world e.g. what is largest selling lingerie in United States for this X'mas season. (For the record : That goes under heading of research in retail industry and web-site performance in peak shopping season). In any case I never managed to spend so much time on internet so far. For many it seems futile exercise to browse through huge junk information. For some it is a hobby (or area of interest). I saw some profiles which contained internet surfing as a hobby on Blogger.com. I hope these people are either unmarried, have lot of 'research' to do or simply spend lot of office and/or college resources on internet surfing. For me spending more than an hour on internet is 'moksha' for a week.