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My first experiments [with web page I knew was horridly graphics
intensive and a comparison d/l of 1.61 [no I haven't installed yet;
wanted to get cable up & running which meant finally getting all the
cabling, phone lines, power cords etc in the office/front room straight
clean & proper after more than a year] showed that what I have said all
along to others is true: It doesn't matter how fast the server is, or
how fast your system is. What matters is how much traffic the server is
dealing with at the time.
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I notice, running DOS Lynx386 on about.com with 56 K modem, that I tend to get
about 1000 bytes/sec, sometimes less, sometimes a little more. 56 K modem is
capable of normally about 200000 bytes/min, sometimes more. So I wonder how
fast these about.com pages would download with cable or DSL, considering that
the about.com servers might be heavily burdened. I am afraid Arachne would take
too much time on the numerous pages, which all seem to carry excess baggage on
the top and bottom.
>Czechoslovacia [sp?]
You're behind the times, L.D.! They separated peacefully into the
Czech Republic and Slovakia.
