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[QUOTE=&quot;Rickideemus, post: 100732, member: 12677&quot;]No, no router. See, I'm comparing the T1 back then -- before &quot;multimedia&quot; was a buzzword -- to ~20 Mbps downstream now. There was no video anywhere that I remember. No flash.After flash came out, there was a program that suppressed flash videos so pages would load quicker. It was a necessity on my 486 with a 56K modem (which was really ~50K).I'm not complaining, really, about my connection speed. Big pages with lots of flash -- YouTube, Amazon, Hotmail, aol ... load in a few seconds. OK, just tested: Amazon 4 seconds, Hotmail 5 seconds for first page, then 2 seconds to inbox, aol.com 2 seconds, YouTube 4 seconds til it will scroll, then another 5 seconds til IE8 reports &quot;done.&quot; All of these will come up faster the second time, since they are now cached. They also come up faster in Google Chrome, but most of the time I use IE cause page layout looks nicer.I really had the impression web pages on those old library computers popped up in 2 or 3 seconds at most. Another thing that occurs to me is they were physically set up to make downloads impossible, therefore no need for any virus protection.I do use an older XP computer with single core 1.6 ghz processor. I don't think that becomes a bottleneck except when I have multiple pages open with flash running on every page.I also use Adfender, which takes a little processing power, but it's well worth it. Cuts down ads by &gt; 90% and makes pages load faster as a result. I should write up a little article on Adfender. It's pretty much a necessity for users of iTV, as opposed to IPTV, or even for YouTube.Anyone remember when the internet was called Darpanet? No search engines, no world wide web (www). There was a guy at UW in Milwaukee that had a feed, and he would send tons of data via Fidonet to all the BBS's in southeast Wisconsin. You could see all this great info there, but completely cattywampus. Impossible to make any use of it.I fought hooking up to the internet for a few years after it got its act together. COLOR! Why would anyone want COLOR on their computer??Hey, I tell ya what. All the local BBS's came up on my C64 computer in less than a second! It was all text, and something called ascii -- you could get a few colors, italics, flashing text, whatever. We played games ... gabbed away for hours like old women. Progress, ha!Rick[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="Rickideemus, post: 100732, member: 12677"]No, no router. See, I'm comparing the T1 back then -- before "multimedia" was a buzzword -- to ~20 Mbps downstream now. There was no video anywhere that I remember. No flash. After flash came out, there was a program that suppressed flash videos so pages would load quicker. It was a necessity on my 486 with a 56K modem (which was really ~50K). I'm not complaining, really, about my connection speed. Big pages with lots of flash -- YouTube, Amazon, Hotmail, aol ... load in a few seconds. OK, just tested: Amazon 4 seconds, Hotmail 5 seconds for first page, then 2 seconds to inbox, aol.com 2 seconds, YouTube 4 seconds til it will scroll, then another 5 seconds til IE8 reports "done." All of these will come up faster the second time, since they are now cached. They also come up faster in Google Chrome, but most of the time I use IE cause page layout looks nicer. I really had the impression web pages on those old library computers popped up in 2 or 3 seconds at most. Another thing that occurs to me is they were physically set up to make downloads impossible, therefore no need for any virus protection. I do use an older XP computer with single core 1.6 ghz processor. I don't think that becomes a bottleneck except when I have multiple pages open with flash [I]running[/I] on every page. I also use Adfender, which takes a little processing power, but it's well worth it. Cuts down ads by > 90% and makes pages load faster as a result. I should write up a little article on Adfender. It's pretty much a necessity for users of iTV, as opposed to IPTV, or even for YouTube. Anyone remember when the internet was called Darpanet? No search engines, no world wide web (www). There was a guy at UW in Milwaukee that had a feed, and he would send tons of data via Fidonet to all the BBS's in southeast Wisconsin. You could see all this great info there, but completely cattywampus. Impossible to make any use of it. I fought hooking up to the internet for a few years after it got its act together. COLOR! Why would anyone want COLOR on their computer?? Hey, I tell ya what. All the local BBS's came up on my C64 computer in less than a second! It was all text, and something called ascii -- you could get a few colors, italics, flashing text, whatever. We played games ... gabbed away for hours like old women. Progress, ha! Rick[/QUOTE]

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