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In a Fast-Moving Web World, Some Prefer the Dial-Up Lane

Posted by TimSlavin at April 19, 2004

"High-speed Internet access is being adopted by millions of Americans each year, growing as quickly as any modern technology. So what makes Dana Jenkins think she can resist?

In fact, she is part of another big group, the tens of millions of Americans seemingly immune to the lure of more speed and satisfied with dial-up services. A majority of Americans who surf the Internet still do so by dialing in on regular telephone lines, despite the rapidly narrowing price gap between high-speed and dial-up connections."

Another good reason to design your web pages to be as lightweight as possible. Browsing with my Treo 600 (a PDA), I am amazed how fat (> 200kb) many websites really are today. They appear to take broadband for granted. The real solution is to replace dialup behind the scenes with broadband because, it turns out, people don't want to pay more for the hassle of switching email addresses and other hassles of changing providers. From The New York Times (free registration required).

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