Posted by aioe-user on 04/16/07 06:37

dorayme wrote:
> In article <evv33a$voh$1@aioe.org>, aioe-user <nobody@no.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I worry about single bytes that all add up and I have a high
>> speed broadband connection. The reason I do have it now is
>> that my 56k line had become virtually UNUSABLE because of all
>> the bloating that's being done (albeit mostly but not entirely
>> by content).
>
> It is almost unforgiveable for a website to have its content fill
> it out when that content could have simply been left out to
> enable a superfast download of nothing.

Unfortunately in the case of too many sites even a slow load
of nothing would be better than a fast load of what they offer.
Except you cannot tell until they're loaded.

Considering that my broadband connection has to be satellite
or it's 56k landline, and that it costs exactly nine times the
56k it replaces, I'm actually considerig terminating it and
returning to 56k. That of course will mean that any home page
that takes more than 3 seconds to load just won't sell me
anything because I'll never read it. Come to think of it, that
would make a very good standard: 3 seconds on 56k or forget it.

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