{"id":163,"date":"2006-04-13T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/13\/speed-vs-cool\/"},"modified":"2007-03-03T11:36:10","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T20:36:10","slug":"speed-vs-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/13\/speed-vs-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed vs. cool"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been talking to my service provider, trying to get increased upstream bandwidth, but am shocked at the price. I find it unbelieveable that a carrier that doesn’t provide service in Anchorage can offer 768K up and down for much less than the carriers in<\/em> Anchorage.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, since it seems that upgrading my bandwidth isn’t likely to happen any time soon, I think I need to rework some elements of the site. The JS menus on the top bar and right-click currently use images for all of the elements. I will probably rework those to be text only. I would like to move away from JS menus and go to CSS menus, but they don’t work in Internet Explorer. Hmm.<\/p>\n

So, for the short term, it looks like I need to pull some of the things that one of my co-workers describes as “way cool” and switch to something that will load faster for those who will notice it – which is anyone with a broadband connection. Of course, the provider says that 360K up is plenty, because I can keep 6 56K modems busy. I personally don’t know anyone who still connects to the internet via dial-up. I am sure there are some out there, and there are others who are on their cable or phone company’s “free” plan who get 56 or 128K cable or DSL connections, but I don’t personally know any of them either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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