Re: UKNM: Re: BTOpenworld

[Kief Morris]

Cait Hurley typed the following on 11:10 28/04/00 +0100

 >Now that this is actually happening at long last, perhaps it's

 >time for a

 >reminder of Tom Loosemore's comments re: fast download times.

 >(The "Loosemore's Law" discussion).

 >

 >To the effect that if any of us imagine that this is an open door to

 >flash-tastic, 200k (hey, why not double it!) Index pages, we've got

another

 >thing coming. One's tolerance of slow downloading sites does not improve

 >with faster connection times.

 >

 >Or so the experience of a man who lived with a fat pipe in Amsterdam for a

 >year would suggest (git).


Or the experience of anyone who uses the Internet at an office

with a fat pipe to the Internet??? A higher bandwidth connection

than a modem from home will be great, but it's hardly something

The World Has Never Seen, as some people are apparently

expecting.


I have a 10 Mbps connection from my PC at work to the Internet. The

next hop after that is a 2 Mbps link shared among a bunch of people

in the office, and from there all of the connections - of which it generally

takes anywhere from 5-20 to reach the site I'm looking at - are of various

sizes, and shared between various numbers of people.


There are a fair number of people in the corporate world who have very

similar setups. Anyone who is wondering what the miraculous world

of fat pipes to your ISP are like, and what kind of wondrous content

it enables, should try browsing the Net from an office LAN. Same

stuff. Usually (but not always) faster than from home. As more people

get on, it slows down. If more home users move their bottleneck from

the PC <-> ISP link to someplace upstream, the Net will become much

slower than it now is for office users, even if content remains the

same size.



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