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Subject: 
Re: New website layout, what you think?
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lugnet.general, lugnet.publish
Date: 
Thu, 13 Jul 2000 22:24:59 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Patrick Justison writes:
I'm not sure total page size (HTML + graphics) is a good indicator anyway;
I've started to notice that much more time can be taken up in the new
connection lag than in the actual image download, esp. over a modem.
I agree here, with a fast connect/reconnect everything is very fast, with lag
it is almost intolerable.  Where does most of this lag come from?

I'm not entirely sure, though I suspect that PPP or SLIP are not optimized for
a protocol like HTTP which makes many new socket connections in a short
period of time.  I have discovered that telnet and even FTP performace is much
better than HTTP when I'm going over the modem.

Cheers,
- jsproat



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  Re: New website layout, what you think?
 
comments below (...) I'd be interested in knowing this. I'm happy with anything that is 100kb or less. But I'm an ex-cable modem and new dsl person, so I'd like to hear from the normal modem users. (...) I agree here, with a fast connect/reconnect (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)

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