The JRE as a browser plugin

I am about to try Nabetse’s mutiplayer game. I’m doing this on a freshly installed machine. The thing is its so fresh I didn’t install the JRE yet, which I normally install manually.

So when I click on the link to load the applet. It automatically started downloading the JRE from Sun. We all know it does this. But as developers, we usually have everything preinstalled. It’s nice to se thinks work as they would for the average user from time to time.

And my impression is that at 256kbps, it’s completely confortable, taking a well announced 5 minutes. That is, there are no loooong I-dont-know-how-much-this-takes waits anymore.

So it’s not the flash plugin yet, but it’s completely acceptable now. at least at 256kbps.

I’m in Argentina, 256 isn’t the norm here however, how’bout down there (yes, south is up ;D ) what’s the typical users bandwidht?

Seb

What is your bandwidth now? haha… I hope your bandwidth improved after 4 years… ^^ my bandwidtth is 10Mbps now…

So slow…

bandwith is traffic, you are talking about speed
In Croatia I think over 60% are on 1 Mbps+ (DSL), and the rest mostly modem and minor on ISDN… But those on modem don’t really use internet much so I’m under impression that 1Mbit DSL is a standard.