 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | Many reasons A) many people can't afford a computer or don't see a need n one so no internet.
B) Eliminate people over 60 in the poll and you'll see that % drop. If you were to tell me that only 10% of couples over 65 have internet access I'd be shocked that the # is that high. As the old die off the % of household with internet will go up.
C) In many areas only dial-up is available. And to be honest many people find it just isn't worth it nowadays to have dial-up.I have a friedn that moved into anew house and dial-up is the only option. he had it for about 2 months before getting rid of it. This isn't isn't 1997 or even 2002 when most pages were mostly text or were minimal on graphics.
For example the Spiderman 3 website has for some reason two landing pages in Flash that each take me about 6 seconds to load. I'm on 10 Mbps cable. Do the math it would take 18 minutes for each pages to load on my friend computer with his dial-up. Who wants to deal with that? Trying to watch ANY video not only mean waiting, but also means low quality.
Next time I move access to broadband internet is going to be a major factor in where I move to. |
