On 4/20/05, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday, Apr 20, 2005, at 06:49 US/Central, David F. Clark, Jr. > wrote: > > I have a friend whose wife is Korean and accesses Korean websites. When > > these pages load it takes a very long time to load, but whenever she > > accesses non-Korean websites the load speed improves tremendously. He > > also > > logged in under his profile and received the same outcome. > > > > Any thoughts on why? > > Could be a number of things: > - the web design of the Korean site > - the number of people hitting the Korean site > - the power of the server on the Korean site > - the load of the server on the Korean site > - the bandwidth of the network connection between the client machine > and the Korean site > - the DNS configuration > - the rendering of Korean fonts by the client > - probably something else I can't think of right now > > The only sure way to test is to hold all variable constant except one, > and then compare any difference. For example, create two static pages > on the Korean site: one Korean and one non-Korean. And then request > both of pages, measuring the time. > > > Could there possibly be an Asian language based virus? > > Where, on the server or on your friend's machine?
Either or both. > Thanks to any and all that can help. > > What kind of system is the client machine? What browser? Do you have > any sample URLs for comparison? The client machine runs Windows XP Home - Internet Explorer - Here is the URL: http://cyworld.nate.com/main2/index.htm Regards, > - Robert > http://www.cwelug.org/downloads > Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS > for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent > > _______________________________________________ > CWE-LUG mailing list > http://www.cwelug.org/ > [email protected] > http://lists.firepipe.net/listinfo/cwe-lug > _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list http://www.cwelug.org/ [email protected] http://lists.firepipe.net/listinfo/cwe-lug
