Re: UKNM: You have 8 seconds

[azeem azhar, lists]

At 4:23 am -0400 15/7/99, 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.


In fact, a boardwatch survey from 18 months ago showed that the average

speed across the US internet was 6 kbps. (assuming your end connection

could do better, so if you connected with a T1 you might do a lot better

than 6, you'd probably end up with 6.


In the UK, end-to-end performance will be better since we are

geographically more compact; fewer hops end to end, everything at

telehouse, etc, etc.


However, a Durlacher survey from about 15 months ago showed that half of

all users did less well than 28.8kbps (using data across a bunch of ISPs,

and using, I believe, Intensive to test).


Of course, things will have improved since then.


But on the downside, these end-to-end speeds tend not to take into account

HTTP overheads and poor response on the server side.


I'd stick to 14k pages, graphics'n'all.


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