I only have a 14.4 modem for my dial up connection. It obviously runs slow nowadays with all the junk they throw on the Internet. (for straight text, it runs great).
I needed access to some information and went to a neighbor who has a
56k dial up. I went to the desired site and to my surprise, the site loaded much slower than it does on my home machine. That didn't make any sense to me.
I did suspect one thing: My browser is also old. I get Javascript errors and tell it not to bother with that. Perhaps the heavy java junk they send down today is bypassed since my browser won't support it; further, my browser won't execute any of that java script (which can slow things down quite a bit). I don't get the animations, but who cares? I also miss out on a lot of ads.
In some ways the fancy java junk is helpful. But in many ways it is nothing but a huge waste of bandwidth and PC CPU cycles. My high powered work PC with a good connection pauses when it works on some internet screens, which I think is utterly absurb and unnecessary.
(Part of my frustration is my feeling that PCs should not be disposed of until they're physically worn out, which is about 5-10 years. But with the rapid obsolesence of ALL the components (browsers, I/O ports, operating systems, internal motherboard connections, appplications), PCs become functionally unusable (obsolete) much earlier than their physical decline. Buying a new PC is an expense, not only for the new machine, but also for transferring files and appliations over and learning the new hardware and software.)
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