I haven't noticed any slowing of the Internet here. I'm wondering whether there is a bottleneck somewhere in Europe that could be causing it.
--- On Fri, 9/4/09, Ted Roche <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Ted Roche <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NF] Is Web 2.0 slowing the Internet > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, September 4, 2009, 5:43 PM > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:17 AM, > Enquiries / Office > Admin<[email protected]> > wrote: > > Over the past six months or so I have had more and > more customers > > complaining that their ADSL lines are getting slow, I > have also noticed how > > many websites seem to have slowed down a lot recently. > I then decided to > > start leaving Task manager open to see how much CPU > Internet Explorer was > > using up. > > CPU consumption on the local machine is not correlated to > bandwith on > the internet, unless you are running one of the core > routers. > > > Wow, some websites seem to be running massive amounts > of code in the > > background causing my machine to sit at 100% CPU for a > minute or two until > > it is finished. What is going on, is this all down > to every Webmaster > > getting on the Web 2.0 bandwagon. If so is there any > way of switching this > > rubbish of or are we stuck with just avoiding any > websites which seem to > > cause this. > > I can't recommend what to do for IE, but FireFox has a > wonderful > add-on in NoScript that lets you control when and what is > allowed to > run on your machine. For example, a couple of my favorite > technical > sites starting hosting jumping, dancing, looping adds on > their pages, > I've disabled Flash and only enable it when I want to see > what's > presented. > > > Has anyone else noticed this general slowdown > recently? > > Some ISPs are badly oversubscribed. A number of websites > have suffered > outages or "brownouts" lately due to overuse or > denial-of-service > attacks. But the Internet as a whole continues to get > faster, and > continues to outpace the growth in usage. Well-written AJAX > transmits > small amounts of data, and is more efficient than reloading > the pages > to display updates. Some badly-written pages are slower, > and you > should complain to their webmasters. > > Some software, like tracking software, contributes nothing > to the user > experience, while slowing down the loading of a page. You > can examine > what a page is loading with a FireFox add-on like FireBug > or YSlow, > and consider blocking the sites that are just dragging down > the page > load. > > > -- > Ted Roche > Ted Roche & Associates, LLC > http://www.tedroche.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are > the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or > medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for > those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
