 BlitzenZeusBurnt Out CynicPremium
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| Different methods used for different programs The image quality loss is a known issue with these services, but I was under the impression that if it was a good service that it wouldn't always cache information.
What I understood of it was they used a faster connection on their end to download your request, and compress it using a higher compression technique than used by current dial-up technology. If they rely on caching servers, then they are worthless...
I'm on standard dial-up myself using mppc compression, I would rather keep the quality than gain speed by ruining images, and be fed from an outdated cache.
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 justinAustralian
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| I only went by what the article implied:
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Dial-up acceleration, with some differences among vendors, works by trying to bring the Web closer to the user. Instead of making you download all of a page from a remote Web server (except for whatever graphics files your own browser has already cached on your hard drive), dial-up acceleration systems use an intermediate server to store copies of popular pages.
perhaps this is not always the case. It may not be the case at all. Anyway, a site marked as "dont cache" will not be cached. And thats ok. It would be a terrible product if it ignored those instructions, web-caches like squid have been around forever.
If a server in your POP just and always fetches the remote page, including all the images, which it re-compresses, then sends you the data as one big stream (rather than a few different requests) then this will certainly make things faster even vs the normal compression that modems offer. Satellite users put up with the same kind of thing. But they also have their fair share of technical glitches with this. |
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 BagnonSnoogans
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St Catharines, ON | reply to BlitzenZeus
Are there still people wasting money on dialup technology? It will be obosolete in the next decade.
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 Boomer86never say roadkillPremium
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Walden, NY
| Sad, but true... said by Bagnon:
Are there still people wasting money on dialup technology? It will be obsolete in the next decade.
Unfortunately, the answer to that is yes. The suburban area I now live in (80 miles north of NYC, and a scant few miles from IBM's Poughkeepsie datacenter) had absolutely NO consumer broadband service until one year ago; at that time, cable went live. Three months later DSL was available.
There's still a lot of folks in the USA who can only DREAM about broadband until the technology comes their way. Until that day, they're stuck on dial-up, and a local call POP if they're lucky!
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