56k Times Five: Myth Or Moneymaker?

maxentius writes "InternetNews.com has an article on not-broadband-but-still-faster telephone internet access premiering soon in more than one commercial ISP venue. Compression and other techniques will improve speed by up to five times, so they say. Hi-tech or hogwash?"

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Vichy French Cowards

[Anonymous Coward]

I know why those frog bastards refuse to save the poor Iraqi people, because they loved being under the control of a ruthless dictator and told ficticious stories of thei brave resistance. Euro-Trash Scum. We are coming to Paris next to topple that ugly tower.

Rob Malda and his Boy Scout friends

[Anonymous Coward]

Rob likes to take the local Boy Scout Troop camping. They play fun games like "hide the sausage" and "pitch the tent pole" If they are really good they can even share his sleeping bag.

Re:Try my test.

[valmont]

As i have repeatedly said to many confused posters, go read the full technical spec before you start rambling. you WILL see that there is much, MUCH more involved than simple compression. There technology is NOT about compression. They leverage compression as part of a far more comprehensive framework involving smart caching based on checksums (beyond the rather limited use of information contained in HTTP headers which is LARGELY NOT used by most site authors/administrators), persistent connections which save you a lot of time on redundant DNS lookups (again, TTL is largely poorly implemented across name servers AND operating system TCP stacks), and TCP SYN/ACK transactions at the initial stages of an HTTP connection.

enjoy.

Re:Myth

[kir]

Wow. That was so FUCKING intuitive. How could I have not known that?