[thelist] 56k users for 4 more years

[aardvark]

saw this at http://www.dack.com/web/ ... food for thought...

"bandwidth blues for years to come

"Despite all the hype about DSL and cable modems, the
Gartner Group (http://www.gartner.com/) predicts that in
2004, 60% of residential internet users will still connect
with analog modems (top speed: 56 kbps).

"Content providers and site developers that target the home
market should consider this, and conserve bandwidth by
building sites that download reasonably fast over slow
connections."

while i generally don't trust research looking this far out
to the future of the internet and its related technology,
it's still food for thought...