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Internet Connection Speed #189597 02/02/06 07:39 PM
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I'm working on my website, and I'm curious as to the demographic here (probably a good indicator of the general lighthouse community demographic) on the face of internet connection speed.

I'm trying to make it somewhat dial-up friendly - compressed and small photos, simple (though well-designed) pages, etc. But I want to see where the community is in this respect to design it accordingly.

There may be a small preview of the site in a week or so. smile

Re: Internet Connection Speed #189598 02/02/06 07:51 PM
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Just a note. Modem speed doen't mean much, at least in my neck of the beach. I have a 56K modem but my connect speed is only 24K on a good day. Connect speed may what you want to know about. Modems are like that.

Re: Internet Connection Speed #189599 02/02/06 10:51 PM
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One of the reasons I have stayed with dial-up is with my 56 K modum my dial-up speed has held steady at 50.6 K over a 6 year period. I don't do many downloads except for Norton amd MSM updates so I can live with it. I also have accelerator and all this for a whopping $14.95 a month plus unlimited minutes and free talk to a person backup service. It's not the fastest but it is the cheapest around Ocala.


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Re: Internet Connection Speed #189600 02/02/06 10:53 PM
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I just switched to Verizon DSL because my AOL offered it. I had nothing against dial-up and was satisfied with it for a long time. When AOL offered Verizon dialup and AOL for the same price, I figured it was time to make the move.

It is a lot faster and it is nice to be able to use the phone while you're still on-line.

smile Bob smile

Re: Internet Connection Speed #189601 02/03/06 07:53 AM
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we use DSL. We went for it, because we spend a lot of time on the net. This means the advantage that you can use the phone at the same time is important and also a dial-up would get rather expensive. We pay a flat rate for the internet.

But my main reason is the speed of the connection.

Then again... I still try - on our website - not to load too much with every page. I get frustrated, when a page takes ages to load simply because there is so much on it.

So I prefer to have several "layers" - pages with lots of links to what you realy want to see, rather than everything on one page. That is more work at the creation stages, but I think it is worth it.


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Re: Internet Connection Speed #189602 02/03/06 03:18 PM
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I use dial-up at home and never come to the forums. I only visit the forums from work where we have a T1 line. I tried accessing the forums once over dial-up and with the many photographs, decided never to do that again.

Re: Internet Connection Speed #189603 02/03/06 03:27 PM
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We use DSL, but I have Net Zero on my computer as well. It comes in handy when DSL glitches like it did this morning. Doesn't happen often, but I don't have the patience Stan has to wait for the glitch to repair itself. I had no problem pulling up the CF site, even with the pictures.

Re: Internet Connection Speed #189604 02/04/06 01:59 AM
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I have DSL and love it. When my kids gave me my new DELL, I wanted to be able to move around quickly. Dialup was s-o-o-o-o slow and it tied up my phone line.


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Re: Internet Connection Speed #189605 02/04/06 08:46 PM
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seagirt--I may have messed up your poll. In the speed I clicked on not sure when I meant to click on I use broadband. Very sorry about the errant finger. frown


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Re: Internet Connection Speed #189606 02/04/06 09:03 PM
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No problem, Tom. Someone else did, too, so I can just manipulate the numbers as such to figure out the true number for each. smile

Re: Internet Connection Speed #189607 02/07/06 03:42 AM
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We just switched to DSL and wireless. Three in the house using the net and a fourth wants the phone. Went with SBC/yahoo but don't use the yahoo part.

It's nice eek eek eek laugh laugh


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