Re: UKNM: Re: BTOpenworld

[Tomski]

>Now that this is actually happening at long last, perhaps it's time for a

>reminder of Tom Loosemore's comments re: fast download times.

>(The "Loosemore's Law" discussion).

>

>To the effect that if any of us imagine that this is an open door to

>flash-tastic, 200k (hey, why not double it!) Index pages, we've got another

>thing coming. One's tolerance of slow downloading sites does not improve

>with faster connection times.


in fact, user's tolerence of delay decreases as bandwidth increases. where

on narrowband a user might be happy to wait 8 seconds for a page to render,

on broadband they start clicking after more like 2. already fast sites are

even faster, so get used more.


>Or so the experience of a man who lived with a fat pipe in Amsterdam for a

>year would suggest (git).


less my personal experiences (though a 2mb cable modem *is* heaven) more

the feedback from the 200,000 european broadband users who use the

broadband portals i help build and manage.


The powerpoint doc on http://www.chello.com/home/P/1164/index.html gives

some details of a survey conducted of users' habits across europe.


-tom



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