Glowplug

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Take a look, about 9min 30 sec in

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007tp3n

Dr Hu

Nice Pigeons......

dpb

my f**kin dial-up was frequently quicker than my broadband

ALi-B

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That makes the pigeon 0.5Mb/sec ..faster than my upload speed on virgin 10Mb (0.47Mb/sec)

The problem is partly down to content rich websites.

I mean music or vids, fine. Its expected, and there is no way round that. But many other features could be made more efficient for those on low speed internet. When what should be simple websites cram their page full of useless content rich media that is not needed, and without a low bandwidth version, it makes browsing some websites impossible

Like the other week I was looking to buy a LG plasma TV. I needed to look up the specs on LG's website, problem was I had no boradband and could get no 3G signal. And due to its content rich features (excessive use of flash, menus, graphics, drop down menus etc), it made browsing it impossible, for what should be a simple spec sheet in plain text.

Sadly, websites have suffered the same bloat that has dogged PCs since the invention of Windows. Since the mainstream adoptation of calling various bandwidth hungry scripts including flash, shockwave, silverlight and use of more dynamic content, the resources required to load or use a webiste has become far greater than the capacity of the networks we use to gain access to it.



Its probably fine for IT geeks or those in the "City" with their leased lines running upwards of 100Mb, but when all Joe public can muster is a few Mb on ADSL or GPRS on their mobile phone, then one has to question who is at fault; the network providers for not supplying what is demanded en-masse, or the website creators getting too carried away and not creating efficient sites or alternatives for those unable to get a decent internet connection?

warrenm2

He got it wrong in the first minute. He says MegaBytes whereas the correct term is Megabits (for line speeds its always in bits = 1/8 of a byte)