on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 12:24:47AM -0700, John Joe (zhoupp@yahoo.com) wrote: > I surf with Netscape 4.0 for Linux and find it much > slower than IE 5.0 of MS Winodws. I've change MTU to 576 (MTU is an > argument to pppd) and it didn't help. > > I connect by 33.6k internal modem. I use Debian 2.1. If you've got a PIII 200+ and 128+ MB RAM, Galeon or Mozilla should be a lot faster. Skipstone may work on less full-blooded systems. Konqueror's a nice browser, but I don't know its performance profile. If you're not tied to free software (and you're not if you're running Netscape), Opera's designed for speed. Tabbed browsing provides a bit of an illusion of speed -- you can do a lot of tasks in background while reading something in the foreground. Makes even very slow connections quite bearable. Junkbuster to kill banners will speed pageloads considerably -- most banner servers are dog slow. And that's the least of their offences. A Squid proxy server can speed browsing considerably. I get about a 20% hit rate (not sure if that's objects or bytes) through mine, from a single user (performance, as hits, actually improves with more use), that's 20% of my requests that are procured locally rather than remotely. I found performance on my wimpy PPro 180 desktop improved markedly when I offloaded Squid to my P-200 firewall box (who says wimpy old boxes can't fly ;-) -- it's a bit memory hungry. Web performance in general is quite acceptable. If you can switch that modem of yours for a 56K job (about US$80 according to today's forray to the store), along with the other suggestions, you should find web browsing performance acceptable, if not blinding. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Are these opinions my employer's? Hah! I don't believe them myself!
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