On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 14:40:50 -0500, John Lyons wrote: > Over 3 1/2 Minutes,Downloading a webSite is ForeverTo Me,I'm using a new > Compaq Computer > Though I would Experment with The Dos Browser.And I have noticed that > Arachne Realy Does > A Slow Dance Loading some of the Many WebSites I Have At > http://www.lyons.8m.com > Well Any How Not A Bad Browser for Dos jdlj
It would help if you were more specific and less subjective. That way we could zero in on what exactly might be going on. How fast is the new Compaq? What CPU? How much RAM? How long in seconds does it take Arachne to load the sites? Arachne tells you how long a page take to load on the status line. Remember, the times I gave are for an ancient 386 that runs (or maybe crawls from your perspective) at 33 MHz. A new Compaq should be about 900 Mhz or faster. So your page load times should be twenty of thirty times faster than mine. Are they? Without specifics it's impossible to judge if Arachneis running normally on your equipment, or not. In the past I've run tests of Arachne versus Netscape and Windows on slow Pentiums and sorry to say, once the systems are up and running, Arachne is quite a bit slower than the Windows alternative. Of course, Arachne and DOS gets up and running much, much faster than Windows and Netscape. I didn't save any of the data from my tests, so all I can offer is general observations. Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
