Anyone know the % of dialup users to DSL or higher users?
 

I know more and more people are getting faster connections, but does anyone know the current number?

80/20

80% of people are using dialup? Wow.

11% after you exclude connections used for business.

This is a very intriguing article about it.
http://www.pornresource.com/article.php?aid=772

I know that fact to be true, but it just blows my mind. I've been on a high speed connection for 5 Years

Even poor/third world countries have high speed connections now - whats the deal with people in the West not upgrading?

thankfully my folks are still on 56k...

59% modem
41% DSL/Cable/T1

for > 2,000,000 samples at Penthouse. We have some fancy pants web analytics at the top of all our pages. It tells us.

Then I don't understand the trends going on now days. It should be for heavier content. Big movies 50 MB or so. I don't see any of these programs catering to big connections.

My site has hundreds of 50 MB+ straight hardcore movies (20 minutes long), the next number I'm trying to find is what percentage of people are of that niche. I know it's the most common. I'm looking, if you know please post. Here's the top ten converting, I need the top ten visited.


Top Ten Converting Niches
1. Centerfolds
2. Anal
3. Amateur
4. Oral
5. Tranny 6. BBW
7. Ebony
8. Latina
9. Lesbian
10. Mature

http://www.thestatistician.com/

Also, would you guys promote a site catering to those with big connections? A hardcore fast connection niche?

it's not the people, it's the companies. telcos have been fighting very hard to make sure that very little DSL gets provisioned - at least, that's how it was for several years. they had to sell some themselves, but they did it at a price point that wasn't profitable to drive competition out. because it wasn't profitable, they couldn't afford to expand as much as they "ought" to have.

competition, other than cable, is dead or near dead. cable is still not profitable, as i understand it.

other countries have it easier because they either have government investments or they don't have "as much to lose" throwing away older technology investments. our telcos are very concerned about getting the most value out of pre-DSL hardware, and follow the "change is bad" mantra of US corporate policy.

Go to Overture URL=http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ ]http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ [/URL] and look at how often the key words associated with that niche come up. it could be a rough barometer.

Here is something off google:

http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache...hl=en&ie=UTF-8

it's something like 80-70% dial-up and this industry should be thankful for this situation imo.

how long would it take for a broadband user to download all your content compared to a dial-up user? will they convert from trial to full membership and will they rebill as much? i doubt it.

unless you add a lot of new content 3-4 times a week don't pray for broadband users. the same logic applies to large file video formats versus small file video formats.

ah, that's what I was looking for.

South Korea 51.7% Broadband users.
United States 10.4% Broadband users.

WTF?

Says based on trends, there will be 117 million broadband users by 2004. Up from only 32.5 million in 2001. Sheeww, that makes me feel a lot better.

With my site it takes 20 minutes to download 50 MB movie. With cable modem. Which seems to satisfy most of my members for the day. In a month they use up 1.5 gigs of bandwidth. And I have enough content to last them a year at that rate.

But, my site just isn't reasonable for people with slow connections. It would take 6 hours for a dialup person and they would get disconnected before it got done.

I remember being a newbie and wondering why my TGP wouldn't grow fast. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks. My page was 100 kb. That is way too big of a file for the dialup era I was in. You look at the hun and other big guys. They don't use unnecessary graphics and have very clean html. Most of them serve the banners off of a different server so the links get laid down immediately.

This is one of the reasons they got so big, they understood this and started when all there was, was dial up.

I think their growth will slow down when such technical care is thrown out the window due to the capabilities of faster connections.

That's good info Shaggy. Most of us know it but it still needs to be repeated often.

Yeah, if I only had a dollar for how many people probably turned back because they were sick of waiting for my page to load. :ugone2far