Re: Incompetent web authoring or much worse?

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:22:13
GMT Jukka K. Korpela scribed:

Scripsit Neredbojias:

I, too, remember when 1200 baud was "fast" -compared to the
prevailing 300 baud rate then prevalent.

Oh, what a luxury. My first experience about using a network
connection at home was with terminal that that had a manual switch for
selecting between 110 and 300 bit/s.

Teletype speed. Luckily, 300 baud pretty much held sway for connecting
to bbses when I started "surfing".

For comparison, people are _still_ using the Internet over 9600 bit/s
GSM connections. Faster wireless connections are becoming affordable,
but 9600 bit/s is really sufficient for purposes like normal (no
attachments, please) e-mail and much of surfing on no-nonsense web
pages.

But today's cable speeds
are typically like 1+, 2, 4 and even 7 mbps, and some connections are
even higher.

That's nominal maximum speed. The real speed is something different
and varies. And a connection between a client and a server is usually
not faster than the slowest part of the data path, and a fast
connection does not make an overloaded server any faster.

Nope. I still see images load a fraction at a time when the server's
choked.

Well, this was just to put all these speed things into perspecive.
Whatever the technical status of connection speed is, it'll always be
better to spend less bytes in data transfer. I'm pretty sure that when
they finally find out a way to connect my brain directly to the
Internet, the speed will first (for the pioneering phase that might
last years) be something lousy, by today's standards.

I recently heard they were doing some experimental bio-digital direct-
connects in Sweden, but, unfortunately, all the volunteers are ending up
permanently wired.

--
Neredbojias
Half lies are worth twice as much as whole lies.
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