Posted by The Eclectic Electric on 01/24/07 22:54

"dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:doraymeRidThis-B6768F.09263825012007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
> In article <9fkfr250sb8dgr0cbfq4bvojre2q4pqolo@4ax.com>,
> William Hughes <cvproj@grandecom.net> wrote:
>
>> > Although less of
>> >an issue these days, there are still a lot of people with 10KB/sec
>> >(56Kbit/sec) dialup connections. These means that the page would load in
>> >about 5 seconds, assuming no other large documents like images.
>>
>> Luddites. :)
>
> The situation is much worse than Jim says. 10k per sec is not any
> figure I have much experienced when I was on dial up*, nor today
> on most dial up in most parts of the world. We can talk fancy
> things like 56k modems, throughput, upput, sideput but the actual
> truth is dialup folks rarely even get half of what Jim is saying
> on average. Closer to 3k. They are not luddites, they are
> dependent on what is available in their situation at what price
> they can afford.
>
> It is important to make your pages load reasonably quickly for
> them. For your specialist, interesting information, I don't think
> it unreasonable for folks to wait even 20 secs or more for the
> whole page to load as long as some comes quickly.
>
> *Had I got 10K per sec, I would have delayed getting broadband
> even longer! Now I have way over the top speeds. What is the
> opposite of Luddite? I feel like one of these latter.
>

Are there any reliable stats as to how many people are still on dialup? I
was astonished at the stats last time I heard them here in the yUK. About
20% or such, despite the fact that broadband is available to about 99% of
the population and usually cheaper.

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