TKJunkMail
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3 edits |  Broadband is being used by very many
Even those people who do no gaming, or no downloading of music, or videos, or large program files are doing many bandwidth intensive things now.
Most broadband users now exchange huge and many photo files of their friends and families. Things that with dial-up would take forever and were usually not attempted.
Now, as more and more people have digital video cameras, even old grandma and granddad are downloading huge movie files of the grandkids.
And families with kids still at home have networks of computers in the home where high speed and wide pipes make internet browsing usable for several at once.
And as VOIP adds customers even more bandwidth will be needed.
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steven s
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Dearborn, MI | hmmm
Surprised it's so low. |
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one_bored_si
join:2003-03-10
Montebello, CA
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| Some similarity to television
Not much content out there that is fresh and new enough to use all this bandwidth. Sort of like TV the same is happening with the web being filled with too many AD's. The reason more and more people move away from the idiot box to the new emerging idiot box (PC). |
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Nerdtalker
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join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ
clubs: | Good to hear!
Its good that Broadband is catching on now, especially being the majority now.
The only bad thing is that with this promiscuity, comes the added percentage of people who don't use a firewall, AV, or run windows update. |
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Deathsadvoca
join:2003-08-20
South Lyon, MI
clubs: | reply to steven s
Re: hmmm
im not, some people who want to have high speed internet cant get it. |
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Rammer
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clubs: | reply to Nerdtalker
Re: Good to hear!
i do not think that 53 percent of the us is on broadband
thats total crap |
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ObdH
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| said by Rammer  :i do not think that 53 percent of the us is on broadband thats total crap wasn't it just like 3x% a year ago?
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Rammer
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| lol yes
you cant get a true user count by asking
a 1000 people what they have dial up --or high speed
you can see on forums all over the net that even in and around the city limits of large citys ther are still many that have no options
heck in louisiana there are many many places with out a pots telephone lines
they use cell phones and what ever -- too keep in touch with the outside world |
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mike1965
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join:2002-09-23
Marion, IL
| i guess the poll depends on who you ask....as many companies CLAIM to have highspeed internet which is dial up that caches pages.....thus it is still dial up LOL
availabilty is a problem also.....many cannot get it....others do not need HIGH bandwidth broadband but a lower tier would do.....how ever providers like mine which is mediacom has a lowwer tier which is better than dialup but not super fast....i think it is 128/64 which is still better than dial up....however they will not sell it except they will offer it to customers who decide they do not need 3000/256 .....so untill greedy companies like this offer lower tiers...it will not help any either
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rtcpenguin
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said by ObdH : said by Rammer :i do not think that 53 percent of the us is on broadband thats total crap wasn't it just like 3x% a year ago? I'm fairly sure I read a front page article not too long ago saying the number was closer to 10%, at least in the US.
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SequimPC
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Sequim, WA | 10% sounds reasonable. I would believe as much as 15-20%. |
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mocycler
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Naperville, IL
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| reply to Nerdtalker
It kind of blows the argument that the municipal (read: socialist) BB proponents use when they claim broadband is so hard to find.
Truth is, most people can get BB if they want it.
The figure would likely be much, much higher if there were a way to count all the people who use their employer's T1's and zippy networks for personal use.
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Rammer
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clubs: | well its not that way in my part of earth |
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hellfried
join:2004-09-02
malaysia | reply to TKJunkMail
Re: Broadband is being used by very many
this is so confusing. a few days we were just reading about how bit torrent is choking broadband and now we are supposedly not using enough bandwidth. is there a conspiracy to confuse the average joe here? |
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antdude
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join:2001-03-25
| reply to Deathsadvoca
Re: hmmm
said by Deathsadvoca :im not, some people who want to have high speed internet cant get it. Or they don't want it because dial-up is cheaper (e.g., I pay $58.95 for cable modem service). |
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digital k
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join:2003-12-25 | my 2 cents
Broadband....What else is there?  |
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flushls
join:2004-11-02
Joyce, WA | reply to antdude
Re: hmmm
In the west there is QWEST and where there is QWEST there is little broadband.
I would love to get broadband and would pay 58.50 to get it but it won't happen will the telco's strangle the little guy. |
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BBWEST
join:2004-09-05
Port Angeles, WA | reply to mocycler
Re: Good to hear!
What an oblivious azzhole. Yup I can get BB it is over $1400 per month.
How bout you go take a big bottle of sleeping pills followed by half a bottle of cheap booze and take a long permanent nap. |
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steven s
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Re: hmmm
said by antdude : said by Deathsadvoca :im not, some people who want to have high speed internet cant get it. Or they don't want it because dial-up is cheaper (e.g., I pay $58.95 for cable modem service). SBC DSL is 19.99$. That's cheaper than AOL MSN and Earthlink, the top 3 Dialup providers. |
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antdude
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| said by steven s : said by antdude : said by Deathsadvoca :im not, some people who want to have high speed internet cant get it. Or they don't want it because dial-up is cheaper (e.g., I pay $58.95 for cable modem service). SBC DSL is 19.99$. That's cheaper than AOL MSN and Earthlink, the top 3 Dialup providers. Yeah, but I am in Verizon's territory AND I am too far from CO (19.5K+ ft!!).
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