purplemd said:Anyone know what software would help speed up dial-up? NetZero HiSpeed is
"faster" dialup and I was hoping to get the same benefit.
TIA
another site speed anything up? It's just another step, in fact two
(there's also decompression to consider)
It's the same scenario as downloading a .zip file instead of theJohn Corliss said:I find this very hard to swallow. How can compressing something from
another site speed anything up? It's just another step, in fact two
(there's also decompression to consider) and can only slow things
down. More likely, their "proprietary technology" depends more on
heavy cacheing as in "stores elements of frequently visited Web sites
so they load faster on future visits".
Still, you might want to look here:
http://www.webattack.com/freeware/misctools/fwspeed.html
H-Man said:It's the same scenario as downloading a .zip file instead of the
uncompressed version, less to download, thus faster.
H-Man said:It's the same scenario as downloading a .zip file instead of the
uncompressed version, less to download, thus faster. Compression and
decompression times are a very small portion of the overall time spent as
the dial-up line is the slowest link in that process by a factor of many
times. It does, in fact, speed things up, but I doubt by the amount they
advertise.
============================================Well, my question is who does the compressing? If a file is on a
server and you want it, does the server compress it? How do they know
to do so or does everybody compress their stuff this way? If the
latter is the case, then how come this kind of software isn't on every
computer? Am I missing something here? 80)>
Chief said:============================================
You are correct, John. There is really NO increase of speed of stuff
as it passes through the 'ether' of internet. Whether compressed or not,
the number of bytes passing a certain benchmark point in the route
remains more-or-less the same. There is *some* difference between
loose text files and same-bytesize binaries.
NetZero, Juno, and similar others use the trick you mention ... that of
caching great amounts of stuff that you may return to. Of course, if
such stuff is still on your computer it doesn't have to be sucked down
again. Yet, there is STILL the overhead of the far end having to
think about what to compress, then to compress, then to send .. and,
then on your end, it all has to be decompressed. I seriously doubt
whether from instant of 'choosing' to 'instant' of actual usage, that
anything traveled faster. As a matter of fact, with broadband, the
download of open-source straight ascii text files from Gutenberg
Library of literature is much faster than the zipped packages of the
same files also found there. Try it and you'll see.
Anyone know what software would help speed up dial-up? NetZero
HiSpeed is "faster" dialup and I was hoping to get the same benefit.
TIA
Death said:The time to compress and decompress would be insignificant when compared to
the massive transit time of a dialup packet. Consider a jpeg image for
example. It is already massively compressed but it can get displayed in a
fraction of the time it takes to download.
The real question is how can they tell the computer sending you data to
compress it in their format? Unless it somehow goes through their servers
first?
Death said:The real question is how can they tell the computer sending you
data to compress it in their format? Unless it somehow goes through
their servers first?