Okay, I have DSL. Whew.
It’s raining steadily here in Taos on a Sunday night, where even my old TiBook feels downright fast operating with 1.5 MBps Internet access. You wouldn’t believe how slow the old dial-up was, when I could get on. Sometimes less than 14.4 KBps, I kid you not, usually around 26 KBps. The CNN site, a known humper for the slowly-connected, used to take maybe 90 seconds to fully load. Needless to say, I hardly ever went there. Now the main page displays fully in about three or four seconds. This is the first time, really, that I’ve actually been able to take a look at the contents, since before, who had the patience to wait?
The funny thing is, it doesn’t matter. There’s nothing at the CNN site I want to read, actually. Now that I can finally see what’s “offered” to site visitors, it turns out I wasn’t interested anyway. The same thing is happening all over the Web. Now that I can finally visit all the big sites with no waiting, it turns out there wasn’t much of anything to wait FOR. So how about that? Even my daily dallying with fascinating horrible stuff from legions of bloggers is shorter, due to the high-speed Internet. I’m used to waiting until all the words fill in, paragraph by paragraph, and now it dumps out all at once. It’s harder to goof off by clicking on a slow site just to have an excuse to make a cup of coffee.
But what I love about the speed relates to downloads and uploads. I was working on a client’s site this morning and realized I’d accidentally deleted some important stuff. Fortunately I was able to fix the page and replace an image folder by downloading it from the server. Would have taken 20 minutes without DSL, but I got it in under a minute. To someone who slings files back and forth with the frequency I do, this is just marvelous.
And now, back to writing the long-lost GRACK!.
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