I have made the suggested change to netscape on a linux box which doesn't
use the Starband proxy to access the net. I am not perceiving any
performance differences when browsing the web.
- Marc
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Karl J. Runge wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Jun 2001, Farrell Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Having said all that... The problem with Starband is latency. Where
> > this nails you big-time is precisely with bursty, itinerant stuff
> > like web/http traffic.
>
> I don't know if this will help much but if you increase your
> web browser's number of simultaneous connections it could lessen
> the effect of network latency WRT web browsing somewhat.
>
> I do this for netscape via a line:
>
> user_pref("network.max_connections", 16);
>
> in ~/.netscape/preferences.js
>
> I'm guessing the default is 4? Think of the limit of setting it to 1.
> Then the waiting could be almost all latency (as opposed to data xfer).
>
> If you have starband and if you try this I'd be interested if it helped things
> or not.
>
> Karl
>
>
>
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