RE: UKNM: impenetrable front ends

[Robert Hamilton (brandwidth)]

Matt asked:


> dunno if uncle rupert is a typical user - anyone involved in the design of

> content for the adsl trials want to reply or have any trial findings???


Well, I'm not sure if I'm typical either (or indeed aspire to be), but I agree

with Rupert. The BT stuff was inclined to crash browsers (to be fair they were

quite specific about exactly what it was intended to work with, and I think

most of us just said "Gimme a TCP/IP connection and I'll worry about getting it

all to work") and didn't really offer much other than a very, very fast

connection.


It's cute to show people the ITN news streaming away, but apart from that there

isn't much to shout about. Those involved in the design seem to have

thought,

"Ah, 2Mb/s, that means we can use lots of Flash". Oh dear. Rather a shame,

and a typical abuse of bandwidth, ie just adding frills rather than thinking

about what real benefits could be delivered: making the Web look like one

long channel ident isn't that useful or clever. And, as channel idents go, we're

not talking about anything that's going to make Martin Lambie-Nairn lose

*any* sleep...


More positively, I've been able to work as though I've been on clients'

LANs, which is pretty damned handy, and all in all, ADSL's another good reason for

living in Islington [can't comment on Chiswick ;-) ]


R


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