-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 RJT> Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 -=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to DAVID DRUMMOND <=-

 RJT> David Drummond wrote in a message to Tom Walker:

 DD> Doesn't everyone have cable or xDSL nowdays?

 RJT> No!

 WC> Nor here.
 WC> The additional costs cannot be considered reasonable considering
 WC> how often I'd _need_ a wide bandwidth connection.

 RJT> Just so,  though some people are trying to push it in that direction by
 RJT> the amount of bloat that's getting added to some web pages.  Take one
 RJT> that's slow to load and see how often the word "font" shows up in
 RJT> there,  for one example.

I object to bloat web sites on principle.
One of the worst examples I can think of is Tom's Hardware
page.
Just try logging on there and trying to extract useful information
using Links :-(

 RJT> The big thing these days seems to be to use that command over and over
 RJT> and over again,  along with lots of stuff that's m$-specific,
 RJT> particularly if the page was created with front page,  or worse yet,
 RJT> with m$ word.  No other software out there will deal with this crap,
 RJT> but they load it up in there anyway,  just in case you want to use the
 RJT> same package again.

 When I start coding HTML it'll be straight of a standards
 compliant reference book using a simple text editor.

 RJT> That and *way* too many images seem to be my major problems with poorly
 RJT> done web sites these days.  And I guess a poorly-run provider that I
 RJT> used to use who I *never* connected with any faster than 31200.  Those
 RJT> jerks are sending that last bit out for collection,  too.  They don't
 RJT> know what sort of a can of worms they've opened up here...  :-)

 Been through it all with them before myself.
 Took me almost 10 days for Verizon to acknowledge they had
 not moved my phone number to my new address after a move, they
 remembered to BILL for it however.

 FINALLY I called from my old apartment, thus techically trespassing,
 to finally wake them up!!!

 RJT> BTW,  I told my brother a local access number for the guys I'm using
 RJT> now,  and he's seeing the same speed difference too,  more or less.
 RJT> And he isn't real happy about it.

Once I sock some cash back for veteranarian care I'm moving to a
a non-phone company local ISP.

Now that I've got a clean pair for a line I should get over
50K every time as I did before Verizon altered their negotiation
protocols leaving my software modem to connect at only 33,600 
Even to get that to work I had to append +MS=V32 to the init string
in the dialer.
 
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