The last time I had T1 access, Alice, I had 128 users on a PDP-11 and an IBM 370 sharing it, so it wasn’t a speed demon, but it beat the hell out of the leased partial we had before the T1 became available. The last two days of the month were always “interesting.”

Steve, it will be through neglect if they mess up the ‘Net. People who understand it need to stay on Congress’s case about network issues so they don’t cave in to the telecoms.

It isn’t bad when things work, Karen, but when they slow down every link can be a problem. Waiting for a response from any of the sources, like Haloscan or Sitemeter can really affect load times. That said, dial-up people are really be excluded from more and more sites by the volume that has to download.

I doubt this is deliberate, but I do think we should open a discussion of what we will do if Dubya and company should ever decide to pour SuperGlue into the intertubes, or even start filtering them the way the Chinese do. I’d like to think Dubya’s clients, the big-biz big GOP contributors, would put a quick halt to such behavior… but one never knows.