Tt post sep 14 2016

Interesting. Clearly, my wife and I are internet-lite users.

According to Toast.net's website, the $37.95 per month DSL plan that we have "only" provides 6 Mbps download and 0.75 Mbps upload.

I don't experience any speed issues. Today, my wife and I are working from home, both connected to the internet, and the TV is streaming Pandora over the Roku box.

I don't upload a ton of images and videos. I use ftp, but it's usually for files under 100 megabytes.

We're probably lite TV watchers too, since we don't internet-stream TV every day. Television viewing is a low priority for me.

Even when we have family visiting, and everyone is connected to our Wifi with their phones and tablets, and the TV is streaming Netfllix, I still don't have any problem SSHing to a remote server.

I'm curious as to why you need such amazing speeds.

A big household of people with multiple TVs and devices streaming video at the same time would be a reason. Gaming. Downloading a ton of crap on Facebook.

If you spend a lot time viewing the massively bloated websites produced by media orgs, then yeah, I can understand why warp speed would be required.

That's one advantage of gopher sites: they're usually lightweight and fast to load.

gopher://gopher.floodgap.com - (need a browser that supports the gopher protocol)

Bringing the past to the present.

• https://neocities.org/browse
• http://tilde.club
• http://tilde.town

We used to view sites like that over a 28.8k modem.