[11176] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: How Long to a Multimedia Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Walt Howe, DELPHI Internet SIG Man)
Thu Mar 24 04:01:29 1994
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 11:42:13 -0500 (EST)
From: "Walt Howe, DELPHI Internet SIG Manager" <WALTHOWE@delphi.com>
To: rfolk@shell.portal.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
X-Vms-To: IN%"rfolk@shell.portal.com"
What I find missing from the discussions of the attractiveness of Mosaic as an
interface via dialups to shell accounts or SLIPs is the unattractiveness of
14.4K access. Once you get past the stage of marveling at the graphics, the
2 to 5 minute wait between graphic pages, gets old very fast. Mosaic will be
nothing more than a curiosity to most people who are restricted to current
dialup speeds. The bandwidth of the last leg to the home or office remains
critical.
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O-O- | Co-author of _Internet Basics, Your Online
J ) Walt Howe, SIG Mgr. | Access to the Global Electronic Superhighway_
( ) DELPHI Internet SIG | with Steve Lambert, Random House, 1993
()) walthowe@delphi.com | ISBN 0-679-75023-1
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