Re: UKNM: The next stage in the game - was Dreamcast delayed

[Tomski]

>On a more serious point, isn't it about time we started looking to the next

>stage in the development of the internet? And surely high-speed access of

>the kind expected of ADSL, is the most important development?


I've been using my  cable modem connection at home for 3 weeks now.

It's always on, 28UKP per month flat fee, 1.5Mbps access, with no dodgy 

ADSL caching/proxy issues.

I'm living the future, apparently.


It's been interesting

Is the surfing experience revolutionised?

Nope, cos while the download speed is simply awesome, the per-connection 

latency is the same if not slower than dial up, and becomes the bottleneck, 

along with page rendering overheads.


So on many levels, a site that is Bad over Narrowband (use of loads of 

small images / slow servers / dodgy HTML tables ) is equally Bad over 

Broadband. Have I watched any TV over the web? Have I fuck.


And this focus group of one can *heartfeltedly* verify Cojones' Law, which 

states that as download speed increases,  user tolerence of delay decreases 

proportionally...


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