Pascal Schmidt wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 PS> Hi Roy! :-)

 RJT> That,  and the fact that nobody who 
 RJT> does this stuff likely tries loading a page from a typical slow 
 RJT> dialup connection...
 PS> Well, I have ISDN, which is better, but not that much more
 PS> bandwidth. It's hard educating people about this problem. If I
 PS> mention that some stupid website needs ages to load to the people
 PS> around here, they try and and respond "What are you talking about,
 PS> it loaded in a couple of seconds for me!" Of course they have DSL,
 PS> or in other words, 12 times my bandwith (or even more nowadays). 

 PS> I guess the same applies to web designers, as you say.

Yes,  but the percentage of people who have such a connection is still
pretty small,  as I understand it.  So by not doing any testing,  these
companies are alienating a fairly large chunk of their potential market.

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