Broadband choices

Michael Rueger m.rueger at acm.org
Wed Aug 16 18:48:56 UTC 2000



Peter Crowther wrote:

> Hmph.  The two are not always compatible, and the comms technology in much
> of the rest of the developed world is years behind the US.

Well, in the US this includes Utah ;-)

No, seriously, a large percentage of the internet population even in the
US uses AOL on dial-up lines. At Disney Online every web page has to be
tested against 28k AOL (read slooooww), because that's what most
costumer/guests actually have.
In cities like LA the percentage of people going broadband is growing
fast. You can tell this by just watching the number of people in the
network equipment aisle at Fry's ;-)

On the other hand, even though it looks like Europe is behind in
broadband access right now, it will probably leap ahead by directly
going to wireless broadband. I hope...

Michael





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