iz newsletter-a Steve Bass-a (PC World)
Quick Aside: Dial-Up vs. Broadband
I wondered how many people are still using dial-up. With a newsletter
deadline and a strong urge to kill some time, I decided to find some
dial-up vs. broadband stats.
PC World's latest survey shows that 79 percent of people landing on
our site have broadband access and 19 percent are on dial-up; the
rest, oddly enough, answered "I don't know."
According to PC Pitstop, a site that does a dozen or so online
diagnostic tests, about 90 percent of all users logging onto its site
in 2000 had dial-up connections. Five years later, the numbers are
almost exactly the opposite, with 90 percent of all users on
broadband.
Also interesting: PC Pitstop says that compared to their users with
broadband connections, their dial-up users had slower CPUs, smaller
hard drives (and used less capacity), had less RAM, kept their video
display set at lower resolution (800 by 600 vs. 1024 by 748).