After months, perhaps years of struggling your way through Internet using an analogue modem, you have decided to go for it and to invest in ISDN although we have to admit that when we first started with Internet, we all thought this was rather fast. But after a few months or years you will have noticed the drop in speed. Indeed, the movie player does run much more smoothly and downloading the 4Mb file doesn't take 2 hours anymore. But still, after a few months of using ISDN the problem of decreased speed is back just because of the ever increasing number of Internet users. Small-bandwidth sites simply cannot handle all requests when it suddenly becomes popular.
Internet seems to be jammed more and more everyday.
Today, it is almost impossible to get that through analogue. Satellite, of course. In the past, we have seen systems such as Videodat trying to get digital computer data at the users' desktop, but it was by no means interactive. Some other clever guy blew a bit of new life into a similar system offering a selection of the most popular Internet sites through satellite. Again, this is not interactive and we don't believe in a long life span for this.