I’m a heavy internet user. When folks send out surveys about internet usage, I’m one of the ones that usually fall into the ‘power user’ categories. For the past few years, though, I’ve felt increasingly left behind by the new internet techology because I was stuck with a dialup connection. I felt like I was only getting half of the Internet. And I was. Low bandwidth speeds meant that I couldn’t use a webcam to chat with friends. I got left behind in chatroom conversations and couldn’t use a lot of web sites that use databases to store information – even discussion forums took so long to load that I often gave up waiting and found something else to do. On Wildblue, all that is changed. Here are five things I can do on Wildblue that I couldn’t do on dialup.