Posted by dorayme on 01/25/07 01:25

In article <NsRth.81472$Qa6.77010@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net>,
"The Eclectic Electric" <nospam@spamispoo.spam> wrote:

> > 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.

In Australia, the last reasonable figures I saw was about 40+%.
What is cheaper and not cheaper depends on too many things to
discuss here I guess...

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dorayme

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