On Friday 01 June 2007 20:03, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Friday 01 June 2007 17:47, Rajko M. wrote: > > On Friday 01 June 2007 17:36, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > You saw a carefully crafted demo. Don't assume you'd see similar > > > performance in a real-world situation. > > > > > > You know what they say: Your Mileage May Vary (YMMV) > > > > > > > Non-cached data flows very fast with WAAS. > > > > Taking speedup of 10x it is probably text compressed on the fly. > > Linux can do that see > > http://rute.2038bug.com/ > > Given the types of data that currently comprise the bulk of WWW traffic, > only the markup formats, principally HTML or XHTML and the occasional > XML document themselves, bear much compression. All the other formats, > images, audio, Flash, archive files, etc. are already well compressed. > I suppose once SVG becomes common, it might benefit from compression, > too (it's an XML format). > > This same approach has been taken by some ISPs. You install some > proprietary (usually Windows-only) software and by then funneling all > your traffic through their proxy servers, they can cache and compress > the select objects. They've mostly been hype-heavy, and have not, to my > knowledge, seen widespread adoption.
Agree. I got few questions about accelerated option and advice was not to buy. Once page is downloaded it will be used from cache and there will be no difference except in the wallet :-) The above was example how it may work, and it was selected intentionally to show speed. It is mostly html/text and idea came from your comment "specially crafted" :-) . There is no "non-compressed" version that we can compare with, but there is a lot of similar pages that can be used for that purpose. I can't barely see difference on pretty good sized broadband, but someone on dialup should see substantial difference to similar pages, and the most important with Linux you don't need external software. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
