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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: 26 Mar 1996 14:51:03 GMT
- Organization: Private Internet Connection
- Message-ID: <4j908n$tca@storm.cycor.ca>
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- In article <4j64rf$b2@serpens.rhein.de> mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
-
- Guys, guys, guys, you aren't listening.
-
- What I am telling you, is that from some sites, ANY Amiga web browser will
- get very slow transfer rates, on the order of a packet a min, whereas any
- other browser on any other system will get normal transfer rates.
-
- This is _not_ a function of site load, or a bad network connection somewhere,
- because:
-
- 1) Hit the site with the Amiga, while DL-ing, hit the site with a non-Amiga
- *at the same time* and watch the page DL on the non-Amiga at normal rates.
-
- 2) Hit the site with the Amiga, ping the same server from the Amiga, note
- that ping times are fine.
-
- 3) Hit the site at any given time of day, watch the same slow Amiga
- performance, watch the same fast non-Amiga performance.
-
- Believe me, I have tried everything I could to try and isolate where the
- problem lies, and the answer is - there is something about Amiga web browsers
- that throttles packet transfers from some sites.
-
- Here's 2 to try http://www.vv.com/ and http://www.interquote.com/
-
- Try them out with an Amiga, then try them with any other machine, and note
- the difference.
-
- BTW, this behaviour exists with AMosaic, Ibrowse, AWeb, and Mindwalker.
-
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- Dennis Grant
- dgrant@cycor.ca
- http://www.cycor.ca/TCave/
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