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 jmn1207Premium
join:2000-07-19
Ashburn, VA | Power User? What is it that a supposed power user is transferring at such a cap-breaking frenzy? If it's games, movies, TV, music, or software; I just don't see that transitioning in the future to the mainstream users amongst us. If Comcast has to send out warnings to 5% of their customers for exceeding the cap limit, maybe they need to increase the limits? If the infrastructure can't handle it, then they need to expand. As it stands now, a very small percentage of Comcast's customers are coming anywhere near the limits that have been set. | |
 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
Yarmouth Port, MA
kudos:5 | said by jmn1207:What is it that a supposed power user is transferring at such a cap-breaking frenzy? If it's games, movies, TV, music, or software; I just don't see that transitioning in the future to the mainstream users amongst us. How old are you?
I'm 45. I'm no longer in the mainstream. I've never SMS'ed. I don't do much P2P. I'll probably be watching TEE-VEE for a long time. I never go over my wireless minutes.
My kids, however, are in the mainsteam. In 20 years, their kids will be.
We'll never understand, it won't be us.
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jmn1207Premium
join:2000-07-19
Ashburn, VA | I understand too well what you are saying with respect to the changing of the generation guard, but I just don't believe the applications are currently out there that would drive most of us to max out our internet connection 12 hours a day every day of the week. Because a few people need or choose to eat 12000 calories a day makes them power eaters in a similar sense. It is certainly not for the mainstream person as things stand right now. The internet is the same for most people, regardless of their age, at least for now. | |
funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
Yarmouth Port, MA
kudos:5 | To hit Comcast's 250 GB target with its basic 6 Mbps service, you need only run "full blast" for 3 hours every day. But that doesn't change the fact that 6 Mbps is fast or that 250 GB is a lot.
There was a real fight against large web pages back 12-13 years ago. If the page didn't load within 10 seconds on a dial-up connection, marketers believed that surfers lost interest in it. 34K was the 10-second page size limit back then, graphics included, otherwise you'd leave customers in the World-Wide-Wait. Flash wasn't even around.
In 1997, the average page size was 44 KB
In 2000, it was 60 KB
In 2003, it was 97 KB
In 2008, it was 312 KB
(»www.pantos.org/atw/35654.html, »www.websiteoptimization.com/spee···eb-page/)
The 312 KB web page would take 90 seconds to load in dial-up.
We had no clue. We still have no clue. But this is progress, and we'd be fools to resist it.
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