On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 07:19:55PM -0400, Ev Tupis (W2EV) wrote:
> "Mike (KA5CVH) Urich" wrote:
> In reference to http://www.BEACONet.org...
>
> > An example of how *not* to animate a website.
> >
> > Mike wrote
> >
> > I don't know ... I suppose it would depend upon what type of an internet
> > connection you have. My son is a CMS programmer for LeTourneau Univ in
> > Longview TX and they design all pages to be viewed on a 28.8 connection. I
> > believe that he told me that their research shows that something like 80% of
> > all internet users are on 28.8 or less connections.
>
> Hi Mike,
> I asked the originator to explain what they meant, but no response yet.
> Barring
> that, I agree with you. Frankly...if there is anyone on the list with a
> dial-up
> account ... I'd appreciate a private email that tells me how long it takes to
> load, please.
>
> In the mean time...learn all about CU2QSO...the ARRL Contest Desk says, "It's
> Contest Delicious!". :)
I have a 56K dialup line. In MNozilla/Flash on a Win98SE box, it took
~250 seconds to load the front page. The rest of the site is similarly
slow.
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