Connection Speed vs. Productivity

In this day and age when broadband connectivity is available almost everywhere, I almost forgot that a few years back a lot of us are under the mercy of dial-up connections. I’ve forgotten how efficient we were even without net access.

Now, almost everything we (at least for me) do (work-related) is highly dependent on internet access and how fast the connectivity is.

My question here is “by how much is your productivity affected by your internet speed?”. From the last two days that I’ve been running on my mobile phone’s GPRS connection, I would say “a lot”. I’m now getting something like 40Kbps when back home I have 786Kbps.

For one, I am now doing things much longer than usual. Some of my other regular tasks, I could not do anymore at this speed; they have to be set aside when I get back home. See, what I thought I could have accomplished in an hour, I barely finished in four.

Still, this is better than no connection at all.