Jason Levine
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Re: Gluttony?
128KB? Are you kidding? Pages nowadays can easily top 200KB each (with images, JavaScript, CSS, etc). At 128kbps, that would take 12.5 seconds to load. At 1Mbps, it would take 1.6 seconds.
In addition, I'll often load up multiple pages at once. Either by opening an entire folder of bookmarks in Firefox (e.g. "Morning Websites") or by simply browsing on three or four websites at the same time. This cuts my bandwidth-per-site down. If I try loading four 200KB pages at the same time, it will take me nearly a minute on a 128kbps connection. A 1Mbps connection, however, will have those four pages loaded up in 6.4 seconds.
This doesn't even address online video, downloading updates, or some of the other bandwidth-intensive tasks that can be done (that other posters have touched upon).
Nowadays, I'd say that 1Mbps is the minimum bandwidth for the casual web surfer with higher bandwidths required the more you do online (VoIP, online video, online games, etc).
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