My experience as a consultant for many large corporations is, that while they do typically have "fatter pipes", bandwidth per user is actually less than what I get at home because I'm not sharing the bandwidth with everyone else in the corporation.


> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:53:22 -0600
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> Subject: Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Scriptaculous + Prototype shrunk to < 50Kb
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> Jon Tirsen wrote:
>> Most proxy servers don't support gzip-compressed so corporate users
>> still aren't going to benefit from mod_gzip.
>>
>> :-(
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> But wouldn't corporate connections more than likely be on a fatter pipe (especilly those using sophisticated enough to be using proxies) so the weight of the library is much less of a concern for them over "general" web surfers which maybe be more likey to benefit from the compression?
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> I'm assuming that the general web surfers aren't going through proxies themselves, of which I have no knowledge as to the prevelance of proxies so could be assuming incorrectly.
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> Danilo Celic
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