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- From: mikew@net-link.net (Mike Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Does AWeb Work?
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 01:47:22 GMT
- Organization: DC Productions
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- In article <4j5afj$k37@news.injersey.com> jeremyn@nj5.injersey.com (Jeremy ) writes:
- > So I downloaded AWeb. Ran it. Looks nice. No MUI. (Love that ClassAct popup
- > menu.) It works like a charm on local files. Stable in ways AMosaic never
- > was. I abused it a bit to make sure it wasn't going to take down my system.
- > It passed the test.
- >
- > So I dialed into my PPP account, ran AWeb, and typed in the URL of my ISP's
- > home page. The first part loaded okay. The banner image came up. Then,
- > about a third of the way into the load, it slowed to a crawl. Then, it
- > stopped altogether. I tried it several more times. Same thing. Tried some
- > other URLs. Same thing--starts out fine, then comes to a grinding halt. I
- > reduced the number of simultaneous network connections to one, thinking
- > maybe my connection couldn't handle eight. Same thing.
- >
- > I haven't gotten it to load a single complete file over the network yet. I
- > figure this has to be just me. What do I do?
- >
- I've found it pretty stable also. I happen to like MUI, so the interface is a
- lot more boring than I'm used to (I'm coming from IBrowse). A slight problem
- I've noticed is that while it's attempting to load all pieces of the document at
- once, each one loads very slow. It can take a long time before you actually see
- much of anything. I looked at one page that had about 6 big JPEG's in it, and it
- took several minutes after everything had made it across the wires before I saw
- anything. Of course IBrowse does the same thing, but it's a bit more linear so
- you actually see one of the pictures much more quickly. Would reducing the number
- of network connections help with this problem? The homepage I use has a big GIF
- imagemap (or maybe it's a JPEG, not sure) that sends you to most of the other
- attractions. With AWeb the map seems to be the last thing to come up. Is there,
- perhaps a way to load maps first then continue to load the other images?
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