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Posted by Ben C on 06/11/07 06:56
On 2007-06-10, dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> In article <nyVai.11529$wH4.8592@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
> "rf" <rf@invalid.com> wrote:
[...]
>> Oddly enough I did a test my internet connection tonight, for reasons other
>> than conversing with you. http://www.speedtest.net/ reports my connection
>> at 5.7 megabits per second. How does your ADSL[1 or 2] connection compare
>> with this?
[...]
> The point is, what good is your cable if a main thing you want to
> do takes ages - no matter that the cause is the ISP's management
> and systems relevant to the material you want and not the cable
> connection per se.
It also depends what the main thing you want is. 6Mbps is good for
downloading films, but for reading the www latency may be more important
since loading a typical page requires a lot of HTTP going backwards and
forwards.
That's why it can sometimes even be faster to browse the www with a VNC
connection to a remote computer with a lower latency to the internet,
even though in such a setup your local machine is getting the data in
the form of rendered pixels which are much higher bandwidth than the
HTML sources.
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