Re: UKNM: You have 8 seconds

[Steve Mynott]

On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 04:23:15AM -0400, Clay Shirky wrote:

> > Given that most users (and this is independent of whether they have

> > a leased line, ISDN or an old modem) are likely to see transfer

> > speeds of 2.5 - 5 KB/s across the internet web page sizes can be

> > between 20K and 40K.

> 

> 2.5 to 5? On average? Where do you get these figures, they seem high

> to me. 


I made them up like all good statistics :-)  


Actually this is generally what I have seen in the bottom bar of

Netscape over the last three or four years and seems independent of the

speed of my modem or the speed of the leased line of the company I have

been working at (including an ISP), since the network bottleneck

is rarely at that end.


And yes I have seen larger numbers -- just not very often.


Actually 5 kilobytes per second would be a peak speed, average I would

say is closer to 2.5 with something like 300 bytes/speed and

decreasing as my  "give up" or "try another" ISP rate.


My personal rule of thumb, and I am not a typical user is, if a page

has loaded about 30K and isn't visible, is still drawing frames or what

ever, I tend to hit stop and try another site.


My observations of less technical friends is that at first they love

the net but rapidly become disillusioned at the speed of the

"world wide wait".


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1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott

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    democracy is also a form of worship. 

it is the worship of jackals by jackasses.  -- h. l. mencken 

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