That’s a good question. One of the first ones you should consider, if you’re interested in starting to be an indie developer but also in general for ANY kind of work-at-home business!

The answer could be “maybe”, but recently I am more gearing towards “No”.

Why? you could ask yourself. Well let’s take for example the best connection you can have, beside DSL. That is, ISDN connection, maybe using both channel, for 128 kB/s upload/download speed. In indie business, UPLOAD speed is almost important (if not MORE important) than download. Indeed during your work, you’ll normally find yourself uploading a lot of times, expecially the day/week of release.

Even if you did an extensive beta-testing, there WILL ALWAYS BE (Murphy’s law) unexpected bug popping out exactly the day of release or shortly after it 🙂

So as you can imagine, and expecially if you opt for a fullversion download, the upload speed will become crucial. Even using the 2 ISDN channels a 15mb file (which is the average now for a shareware game) takes 15-20 minutes to upload. If you use fullversion and maybe even Pc/Mac version, total time is already 1h!

…and what if a few hours later you found another bug and have to recompile? 😀

ok now I guess you understand why a broadband connection is becoming a MUST if you want to do such kind of online business!