[ILUG] Faster internet connections - is this real?

[Rory Browne]

I think there might be a use for something like this, provided it was
configurable. For example if you could decrease the size of an image
file, by dynamicly reducing its quality on the server.

The idea of using specialist software, instead of the browsers proxy
settings is strange though.

On 5/24/05, nadir at compsoc.nuigalway.ie <nadir at compsoc.nuigalway.ie> wrote:
> yeah, sounds silly to me, wont increase leeching speeds.
> 
> Quoting Kenn Humborg <kenn at bluetree.ie>:
> 
> > > in their own words:
> > > When your web browser requests a Web Page, the ONSPEED software
> > > redirects that request to the ONSPEED Compression Servers. They take the
> > > respective Web Page content, compresses it and sends it back down to the
> > > ONSPEED software which decompresses it and sends it to the Browser
> > > requesting the information.
> > >
> > > Not impossible. In fact, I can think of a few ways of doing it
> > > straight off.
> >
> > And, if you're on dial-up, your modem should be compressing it
> > transparently anyway.  I see up to 9KB/sec when downloading
> > easily compressible content (such as the header portion of a
> > large RPM), which then drops to 4KB/sec when the content has
> > already been compressed.
> >
> > Later,
> > Kenn
> >
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