Why Page weight Doesn't matter
Posted by Ian Holsman
$50/month for a 15Mb/s link to your home. Thats ~10 times faster than a standard DSL link... at the moment it's just a town in texas somewhere, but in ~1-2 years it will be available for most people (read Silicon Valley)
What *IS* important is latency.. how do we get the page out FASTER with minimal delays...
when modems were the majority, it didn't really matter much how fast your server was, the major bottleneck was the size of the HTML (and images) being pushed down the users end. (be it a T1 or a 56k modem).. basically 10 seconds for 50k. now.. the pressure has moved back to the server, and speeding up your applications, as that is where the large percentage of the wait will be.
source: http://news.com.com/Verizon's+fiber+race+is+on/2100-1034_3-5275171.html