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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amigas speak HTTP with an accent?
- From: bmaple@burner.com (Bob Maple)
- Message-ID: <bmaple.jo6x@burner.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 96 16:15:37 MST
- Organization: The Back Burner BBS
-
- On Thu 21-Mar-1996 4:05p, Matthew Hunter wrote:
-
- MH> I believe that Netscape uses multiple network connections, which
- MH> increases loading speed significantly in some cases.
-
- You still have a finite amount of bandwith over your connection, so Netscrape
- really isn't 'faster'. But multiple connections can really help. Instead of
- downloading one graphic at a time, you can be downloading multiple; Small
- images will tend to appear first and 'fill out' the page while the rest come
- in.
-
- Take for instance a Web page with a large graphic at the top; The first image
- on the page. The rest of the images consist of small icons. A normal browser
- would download the whole thing big picture, and then move on to the icons. A
- browser with multiple connections would work on the big picture, and at the
- same time start filling in the little icons, which are probably more
- 'important' than the big pretty header at the top.
-
- The speed at which the big graphic at the top gets downloaded is slower than
- if it dedicated the whole connection just to it, but the web page forms it's
- self quicker in the sense that more objects appear sooner.
-
- : Bob Maple : In the beginning, the Universe was created. :
- : bmaple@burner.com : This has made a lot of people very angry and :
- : http://rmii.com/~bobm : been widely regarded as a bad move. .........:
-