Also mDNSResponder (Bonjour) can do a lot of traffic especially if the user has a MobileMe account.
Greg On Sep 28, 2009, at 3:51 PM, David E. Smith wrote: > e...@wisp-router.com wrote: >> Someone at one point told me that they seen some versions of Safari >> that is doing a lot of heavy preloading and opens up tons of >> sessions. > > Safari has a couple wonderful (from the user's point of view) > features like that. See attached screenshot. > > By default, the "Top Sites" page (their name for the fancy homepage > shown) is only one click away from anywhere, and you can either use > it as a bookmark system, or just let it auto-learn the pages you > visit the most (I use the latter because it lets me maximize my > laziness). > > On that screenshot, you'll see that a few of the sites' preview > images have little stars in one corner. That means Safari thinks the > content of the page has changed significantly since your last visit > (if it's a blog or news site, for instance, that probably means new > content has been posted). > > The screenshot was right after I booted my MacBook - I just started > it up, opened Safari, and clicked the Top Sites button, and that's > it - see how it already has several sites with the star? Safari did > in fact preload all twelve of those sites, to check their content. > And while Safari is running, I'm pretty sure it also periodically > checks those pages again, so that the next time you open a new tab > (which defaults to the Top Sites window) you'll know if anything was > updated in the last few minutes. > > From the user's perspective, this is pretty darn nifty. From the > bandwidth provider's perspective, maybe not so much. > > David Smith > MVN.net > <Screen shot 2009-09-28 at 3.11.15 PM.jpg> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
