Petersons Powerful Pusher

Hi SJ,
Just tried bringing up swishy's post and it worked fine for me, so's the rest of the BB.

SJ - It's the size and number of the picture files that Swishy posted in that thread .. plus your slow phone line .. that is making it lock up on you.

There are many hundreds of Kilobytes that need to be downloaded, to get all the pictures of the pages, from his initial posting.
If you have a slow line (28K-56K), it will 'time out' and lock up your computer, as it takes the computer too long to download them all ..

I have a fast DSL line, and it's taking 20-30 seconds to load his post ..

Swishy's "Peterson's Powerful Pusher" post took me less than two seconds to download using broadband service from Wave Broadband. My broadband service is provided through my television cable hook up. My present "Power User Plus" download speed is 10 MBPS. Wave Broadband's Power User Plus costs a bit more, but at my older age, I feel that my time spent waiting for down loads is precious and any Broadband service is worth the extra cost. I would rather be out playing on my D4 7U than waiting for slow downloads to finish downloading on my computer. I hate sitting inside by the hour, looking at a computer monitor. Wave Broadband's "Low Speed" download is at 258 KBPS. When I was on dial up, many of this board's posts were beyond my down load limits. Not any more. 😊

SSsssteamer - Yes, you have good points. I hate sitting around waiting for downloads, too. I used to be on a 56K dialup, but went over to DSL 3-4 years ago, and the difference is spectacular. Fortunately, I live in a city of 1.4 million people that has good broadband service.
The general problem, apparently, is that large areas of America, and the other 'civilised' Western countries, still don't have access to broadband, but are restricted to 28K and 56K phone lines.

If you check up on the availability of broadband .. both the U.S. and Australia, despite being highly developed nations .. are lagging badly behind places such as many parts of Asia, when it comes to % of the population with reasonably priced, and fast, broadband access.

Iceland and South Korea top the list for the % of population with broadband access .. and the rest of us have a lot of catching up to do.
Some leadership by our erstwhile political leaders in this area, who could show some statesmanship by recognising the benefits of broadband, and establishing further speedy rollout of broadband access, would be something to see .. rather than petty squabbles and infighting over matters that are of importance only to their inflated egos .. 🙄

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4903776.stm

I have a friend in Texas who has satelite service for his TV, and he gets his broadband for this computer through the satelite. (No cable TV or DSL service offered in his area.) Many areas of the U.S. are without either DSL or cable TV hookups. It is a matter of cost. If the cable or telephone company does not have enough customers, it can't afford to string the necessary cable for broadband, because they won't make any profit on it. As for the politicians, what we are talking about is probably subsidizing the cable and telephone companies with taxpayer dollars to provide the otherwise cost-prohibitive services. If so, what that means is that the government steals $ from me to give to X, ostensibly for a good purpose, but it is legalized theft from me nevertheless. Loss of freedom, don't you know. Too much of that going on these days.

GWH