| I concur, Earlie. I think the next big web push would have to be in the 10 Mbit/s region, for MPEG2 on demand and high quality video telephony (I'm thinking 2010 before this gets going to any useful degree). I have DSL at home and I rarely waste my time with tiny video windows, perhaps once every two weeks. I don't download trailers any more, and I've given up on most radio -- too poor compared to my stereo. I'm not into MP3, so what's left? Shopping, although ironically my wife is now doing mail order by calling the company again rather than using the internet, to some extent, e-mail, web surfing. But even web surfing has become rather boring. I do all my banking and investing online, and that's worthwhile and saves time, but for investment ideas, there's isn't much out there but spam, pimping, and disinformation. I check traffic and road reports. But frankly, if my DSL rate goes up, I'll just drop it, it just barely qualifies as worth the extra $30/month. |
