I'll tell you. In the Netherlands we use 128 kb (kilobit!) modems connected to the serial port!:-( This gives you (if you're lucky) about 5-6 KB/s. For surfing the web this is OK, but if you're going to do anything just slightly more fancy it sucks big time. We've been promised ADSL at the end of this year, but knowing our PTT (we only have one that really matters) that will probably not happen.
I'm using IE5 now and slashdot is the only reason I do so! Let me explain. When you click on a reply to a comment, read it and want to return to the index, netscape would return you to the beginning of the page, while IE would return you to where you left off. Normally this isn't all that bad, but when you have pages with 100+ comments on them and you're somewhere halfway down the page, it is very irritating that netscape returns you to the beginning of the page after reading a reply. I hope they change this with Mozilla, and I'll w quit using IE. For the rest I don't really care. I must agree to a post earlier that I also though MS was the evil empire, and I also turned to the dark side when I started using IE. But, if it suits me better, then I'm going to use it.
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I'll tell you. :-(
In the Netherlands we use 128 kb (kilobit!) modems connected to the serial port!
This gives you (if you're lucky) about 5-6 KB/s.
For surfing the web this is OK, but if you're going to do anything just slightly more fancy it sucks big time.
We've been promised ADSL at the end of this year, but knowing our PTT (we only have one that really matters) that will probably not happen.
I'm using IE5 now and slashdot is the only reason I do so!
Let me explain.
When you click on a reply to a comment, read it and want to return to the index, netscape would return you to the beginning of the page, while IE would return you to where you left off. Normally this isn't all that bad, but when you have pages with 100+ comments on them and you're somewhere halfway down the page, it is very irritating that netscape returns you to the beginning of the page after reading a reply.
I hope they change this with Mozilla, and I'll w
quit using IE.
For the rest I don't really care. I must agree to a post earlier that I also though MS was the evil empire, and I also turned to the dark side when I started using IE. But, if it suits me better, then I'm going to use it.