It's not the speed of connections what is holding web applications back, it's poor runtime. DOM+JS without standard local storage, with complete absence of standard libraries for anything but trivial, without any access to PC hardware... Pretty pathetic... It is especially ironic to see ridiculously slow speed of simple Flash 2D graphics running full screen on a kick-ass video card.
Besides, it's not only speed what matters, there is latency issue as well. With HTTP I cannot tell much difference (visually) when going from 3mbps to 12mbps unless I'm downloading an ISO file or something like that. Browser will not open more than 2 connections at a time anyway.
Besides, it's not only speed what matters, there is latency issue as well. With HTTP I cannot tell much difference (visually) when going from 3mbps to 12mbps unless I'm downloading an ISO file or something like that. Browser will not open more than 2 connections at a time anyway.