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- From: ronell@caron.victorville.ca.us ('Ronald Elliott')
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Does AWeb Work?
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 00:41:34 GMT
- Organization: Global Connect, Williamsburg VA
- Message-ID: <KvHiy*elu@caron.victorville.ca.us>
- References: <4j5afj$k37@news.injersey.com>
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- In article <4j5afj$k37@news.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?
- >
- > Jeremy
- > jeremyn@injersey.com
- >
- I have gotten it to retrieve a URL or two across the net but my
- (ancient) no ECS, 68000, A2000 locks up for no apparent reason even
- after downloading and installing the new gif. It's not the gif in my
- case (now) anyway because AWeb now points to my own "launch" page on
- my machine.
-
- Ronald Elliott
- ronell@global.gc.net
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