Education's digital divide more about bandwidth than computer hardware - The Denver Post

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_21351636/educations-digital-divide-more-about-bandwidth-than-computer

I think the maximum download speed I ever got at my last school was somewhere around 0.5 Mb/sec with packet loss around 5-10%. Rural schools are desperate for better bandwidth, but sadly few really know what they're missing because their home connections are no better than at school.