[G4] More Mac Discrimination

[FERENCZY]

yes, AOL (and coincidentally any web browser) can cache images and such
from websites on your harddrive. (usually preferences:advanced:disk cache
or something similar)

but in addition to the local cache, AOL (and compuserve did) has their own
cache of millions of web  pages. this can allow slightly quicker load
times (with static pages due to the fact that there will be fewer
"jumps" to get the information. (you->AOL rather than
you->AOL->verizon->such and thus college->joe blows' site) this is great,
as long as the wenpage doesnt change. if it does change, then all the
speed increase is gone, and it may even take longer to load (you chck with
AOL, they check with joe blow, his site changed, so AOL updates their
cache, then sends it on to you)


sandor

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Scott wrote:

> AOL caches them on your hard drive. After a while your hard drive is 
> full, and it is a pain to clear.
> Scott
> 
> sr ferenczy wrote:
> 
> > you dont want that crap anyway!  basically all it is doing is extra 
> > compression/caching sites on the ISPs servers.  So if you view sites 
> > with static content, you might see a small "speed" increase (its 
> > actually just a decrease in the SIZE rather than increase in speed) 
> > dynamic web pages (news, weather, etc) will not really load any faster.
> >
> > this is the same idea that AOL runs off of, and CompuServe did...  now 
> > smaller ISPs are starting to do it too... (i think juno or net zero or 
> > one of them does it also)
> >
> > Its all a waste of money in my opinion.
> >
> > sandor
> >
> >
> >
> > On Monday, October 27, 2003, at 03:31  PM, Richard Kriss wrote:
> >
> >> More Mac discrimination issues. My ISP just announced a new call Xtreme
> >> Speed but is it for PC users only
> >>
> >> http://www.gbronline.com/gbr_prod/GBR_Xtreme.asp
> >>
> >
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