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- From: doakes@fox.nstn.ca (David Oakes)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amigas speak HTTP with an accent?
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 10:46:17 GMT
- Organization: Nova Scotia Technology Network
- Message-ID: <1114.6654T350T2116@fox.nstn.ca>
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- On 20-Mar-96 12:13:35, Dennis Grant posted:
- >Here's an example: http:/www.vv.com/ works fine on Shapeshifter, but with an
- >Amiga browser, I get a packet every minute or so - I watch the lights on the
- >modem, and the RX light flashes at that rate.
-
- >It's like the server sending the page is really lagged, but only to Amigas -
- >I can connect to the "lagged" server with a PC here in the office, and it
- >runs fine. Pinging the server address on the Amiga works fine too.
-
- >This used to happen with one site in 100, but it's becoming more and more
- >common.
-
- >Anybody else seeing this?
-
- I'd suggest that it has more to do with what time of the day you are
- accessing the web than anything else. When you access these sites at
- work (during the day?), the net probably doesn't have much of a load,
- while it always has a heavy load during the evenings. Especially in
- North America.
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