Here's what the "recession" looks like on a lovely Sunday afternoon at the Apple store in Palo Alto.

Labels: apple

¶ 8/31/2008

I had to move from my old DSL enabled office, and I rented a new place which had just installed wiring for Comcast cable.

The cable guy comes to install the internet, and tells me I'm one of 3 guys using the system in the building, and that comcast just put it in, and it's really nice - "really just an extension of the plant - it's like your sitting on the head end". (That's cable-guy talk for INSANE BANDWIDTH).

Now I just watch HD videos all day and run speed tests. My best so far is 20Mbits. Usaully it's 18 or 19Mbits/sec. Crazy.

Now I also understand why sites like sports.yahoo.com are littered with images, and videos - it's because the web teams at Yahoo (and ESPN and CNN) all have crazy fast connetions to the internet, and they think everyone else does to. Now that I have insane bandwidth, those pages are actually usuable.

The internet is a whole new ballgame, a really fast whole new ballgame.

Here's a tip, in case you have a slow connection and are jealous: just browse the web with lynx all day, and pages will load really fast for you too.

Labels: comcast

¶ 8/02/2008