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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ian@SI who wrote (49583)	7/22/2001 3:27:17 PM
From: Robert O	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 70976

Ot First of all it may seem incredible but I coined the terms 'Joe Six-pack' and '600 lb. Gorilla' then much later '800 lb. Gorilla' (inflation). Astonishing but true. Anyway, I imagine my experience is very similar to many. My dial up at home, all 56k, seemed slow but you are right Ian that I didn't really 'know what I was missing.' All our work PCs are on a T1 line and crank pretty well. Graphics come down much faster and the MAIN plus is in downloading from the Net. What should be a fast download of say Adobe's newest read-only freeware 5.0 was the old start the download and eat dinner at home, but dreamy at work. Experiencing better equipment and speeds at the workplace hopefully will push users to at least keep up and, if you're like me, demand better at home. I would certainly bite for higher speed at home but if prices would just come down a little to make the difference negligible from a dial up ISP and availability would finally become ubiquitous, the revolution could begin (again) in earnest. RO