Hi, alex wetmore wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, mike wilson wrote: > > Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > > Are you saying that there has to be a lot of power at both ends of the > > > connection? That the computers have to "match" in some way? > > > > No, it just seems to me that when I access something using a high speed > > connection and the site is very slow, it is probably not the fault of > > the equipment at my end. > > Websites can be hosted over slow connections, or there could be a > overused pipe between your computer and the one that you are trying to > access. This is just the nature of the beast. > > I upgraded my DSL bandwidth about a year ago because accessing > photographs that I share out over my website was getting slow. My new > DSL has the same download speed (how quickly I can download from > others) but three times more upload speed (how quickly others can > download from me). Most people don't run servers on their DSL lines, > but it isn't that uncommon either. > > When you get high speed broadband it increases your maximum download, > but it doesn't make everything else on the internet faster.
Understood, but if a site is _always_ slow, no matter what time of day you access it, and it is an "intensive" site, then I have to assume that either the machine hosting it is slow or the initial access to the Net it has is slow. Either way, to me it is a slow site and I tend to not bother with sites like that - especially if they are slow purely for for the sake of fashion. I have a (female) friend who contends that "fashion" is effectively a synonym for "stupid" and I heartily agree with her. Form follows function..... mike
