I am one of those who wonder what normal person could use such speed for.
I am staying at my brother's, who lives in remote location and has not too many choices. He is using internet not only for music and movies, but occasionally he works from home as a programmer.
The average speed he has for his professional use is 2 to 5 MBps
Obviously we always want more, but 2 Mbps does the job.
Than using Wi-FI at several campground too often I have the speed "flying" in the morning only to die at night.
I am staying at my brother's, who lives in remote location and has not too many choices. He is using internet not only for music and movies, but occasionally he works from home as a programmer.
The average speed he has for his professional use is 2 to 5 MBps
Obviously we always want more, but 2 Mbps does the job.
Than using Wi-FI at several campground too often I have the speed "flying" in the morning only to die at night.
pianotuna wrote:
I'm old school I guess. I used to listen to radio plays from BBC at 1/4 dial up speeds on an analog cell phone. That's no longer possible.
And oh by the way--it was unlimited data and never throttled!
About 30 years ago I wrote a "cutting edge" terminal program for my Commodore 64. (All in 6502 machine language no less.) It became quite popular for accessing all the online Bulletin Boards (think Text-Based Internet) of the era . .
The max speed back then was 1200 baud (1.2 kbps). When I got the first ISDN connection in our block at 64 kbps, it was superb! But that was then.
Once in a while I do get nostalgic for those times (414 was my area code too), but in no way is the pull to the past strong enough for me to want slow or slower Internet speeds.
Been there, really been there . . . once was enough, Don.
On the other hand, the C64 is coming back.
