With many users having access to high-bandwidth connections at work, Web sites are already starting to adapt themselves to high bandwidth use. Which means that as our Internet connections grow, much of the Internet is just growing to follow suit. The fact of the matter is, a site that uses lots of rich multimedia content is not necessarily any better than a site that uses less, it just consumes more bandwidth. There was a time when Web designers took great pride in creating content that looked good and loaded fast. Such design tenets are still around, but they're dwindling.
Many sites even seem to take pride in their content bloat.
The implication is that the modem is archaic, and so is worrying about anyone that uses one. When I got DSL, I was excited because it would make the content I'd been looking at show up faster. Not because it would mean that content would just get larger. Imagine if they created the interstate highway system and then somehow stretched the country so that all the cities were further apart. It would seem like a somewhat mixed blessing, to say the least.