Web Technology UK

Several years ago, the only access we had to the Internet was through a broadband provider. Our dial-up was so slow it was impossible to surf the web. You were lucky if you ever got the home page to close and open another page, in other words Surf The Web. To open any other web page than a page that had been downloaded before, our connection almost always timed out before it could load it. Video streaming might as well have been science fiction to us. When the web design on a page was full of video streaming, the connection would always be timed out before every loading. The broadband provider always told us the same thing; it's your telephone wires. They are over 60 years old and can't get data in or out of the PC any faster than 17.8 kbps. For years we could only surf the web at a crawl pace, if we were lucky enough to surf at all. Our buying on-line back then didn't amount to much either. I would never trust our information to be leaked out into cyberspace. Without being able to access the net and find out how the security programs worked. That just wasn’t something I would have attempted to do at all. I think for anyone to use the Internet to begin Buying On-line trust is always a big factor.

Now I use the Internet for all of our research for buying almost everything, whether or not I am buying on-line or going in person to a store. The research of the many kinds of products now available to get a job done is a great resource and tool for any number of different things we want to get done.

The day I pulled out a flyer in my mail box for high speed Internet our Broadband Provider was kicked to the curb. We've never looked back. I know now DSL is much faster than our dish connection, but I can also see the differences from where we were and where we are now. The dish has opened up a new exciting experience for the rural customer.