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- From: jhh@acslink.net.au (Joe Hutchinson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Does AWeb Work?
- Date: 27 Mar 1996 10:37:53 GMT
- Organization: Pegasus Networks
- Sender: jhh@peg.apc.org
- Message-ID: <2305.6660T1237T1963@acslink.net.au>
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- On 26-Mar-96 01:47:22, Mike Williams said:
- >In article <4j5afj$k37@news.injersey.com> jeremyn@nj5.injersey.com (Jeremy )
- >writes:
- ...
- >> 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?
-
- It's not just you ...
-
- >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?
-
- I have a similar problem, my internet connection slows to a crawl...
- And I'm not receiving data, the modem lights aren't flashing very often
- at all. The rest of the system seems as responsive as ever, but TCP
- seems to be extremely slow. And that's with image loading off.
-
- By the way, it also slows down my ConnectTHOR session, "Retrieving 1/43"
- for several minutes, until I quit AWeb, then it flies (the article was
- less than 5K). What is going on?
-
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- Joe Hutchinson |\| /\ |-|
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