Page Weight Matters

Re:Page Weight Matters by Retric on Saturday December 22, 2012 @10:09PM (#4958407)

Dropped packets are directly related to "page weight" and get worse depending on latency.

400 round trips * 500ms latency is 3 min 20 seconds. This took 20 minutes to load 1 megabyte.

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Re:Page Weight Matters by foobarian on Saturday December 22, 2012 @10:26PM (#4958453)

In other words the bandwidth really is something like 6.6 kbps instead of the nominal rate.

(Really, did anyone ever get the nominal 56k modem rate back in the day?)

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Re:Page Weight Matters by keithpeter on Sunday December 23, 2012 @05:36AM (#4959164)

Yes as it happens, pretty close. Unfortunately British Telecom had a policy of dropping data connections after 2 hours in those days...

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Re:Page Weight Matters by masklinn on Sunday December 23, 2012 @05:05AM (#4959121)

No.

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