The man, surnamed Lan<\/a>, was at an internet cafe in southern Guangxi province last June when his frustration with the connection speed spilled over.
He responded by destroying a public box containing optical fibre network cables, a local court said in a statement on Monday.
The court said the man \"used a lighter to set a napkin he had on him on fire, then burned down a telecommunications box at a traffic intersection\".
The fire caused nearly 4,000 households and offices, including a public hospital, to lose internet access for 28 to 50 hours.
\"After the incident, public security officials seized Lan's instrument of crime -- a lighter,\" according to the court in Cenxi, a small mountain city.
Lan was later hit with a seven-year jail term for \"destroying public telecommunications facilities\".
The story prompted widespread ridicule on the Chinese internet, with one Weibo user calling the man a \"big baby<\/a>\".
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