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- From: dgrant@dgrant.peinet.pe.ca (Dennis Grant)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amigas speak HTTP with an accent?
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 13:47:30 GMT
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- In article <1114.6654T350T2116@fox.nstn.ca> doakes@fox.nstn.ca (David Oakes) writes:
- > 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.
-
- That's what I thought at first, but it's not it:
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- Try the site, too slow.
- Start ShapeShifter, run Netscape, works fine.
- Quit SS, try site, too slow
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- For that matter,
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- Try the site at 1 hour intervals throughout 16 hours, too slow.
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- It's the Amiga, for sure. But why?
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