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| reply to BlitzenZeus
Re: Different methods used for different programs 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. |
