How much better is 1 or 2mb

As far as I understand it it makes little difference when surfing the net
only when downloading.

Is this true?

Ken

"Ken" <noone@nowhere> wrote in message
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> As far as I understand it it makes little difference when surfing the net
> only when downloading.
>
> Is this true?

Surfing the net is downloading - you download data from the web server. A
faster line will improve the speed at which highly graphical sites are
displayed as most browsers will only open up to 4 connections to a web site,
so with a lot of images on a page you get serialisation of the image
downloading - the faster you can download an image, the faster the next will
be downloaded. You also get faster downloading of the initial HTML, so the
browser can go off and start downloading images quicker - however, for most
sites this won't appear to give any noticeable improvement as HTML pages
tend to be quite small amounts of data.

Dan

"Ken" <noone@nowhere> wrote in message
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> As far as I understand it it makes little difference when surfing the net
> only when downloading.
>
> Is this true?
>
> Ken
>
Pretty much, you might notice some websites load slightly faster if they
have a lot of graphics/flash/etc.

"Paul Godfrey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Ken" <noone@nowhere> wrote in message
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>> As far as I understand it it makes little difference when surfing the net
>> only when downloading.
>>
>> Is this true?
>>
>> Ken
>>
> Pretty much, you might notice some websites load slightly faster if they
> have a lot of graphics/flash/etc.

I would agree, I`m on 2 meg and once the page is found it will download
quicker but there is still that same delay whilst your browser locates the
page.

Yeeaaahhh but the faster downloading is what makes it worth it - although
some downloads seem to be slowed down by the vendor not supplying fast
enough.

In article <4224a4fe$0$16766$(E-Mail Removed)>, Oh
God It's Him Again <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>Yeeaaahhh but the faster downloading is what makes it worth it -

Also the fact that you can use phone and internet at the same time.

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Thoss

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 08:33:43 -0000, "Ken" <noone@nowhere> wrote:

>As far as I understand it it makes little difference when surfing the net
>only when downloading.
>
>Is this true?
>
>Ken
>

Depends entirely on the size of the file you're receiving.

It's down to how TCP works - it will start with a "slow" data rate and
ramp it up as the server and your router "chat" to each other while
you're downloading. That's also why larger downloads seem to start
slow, get faster, then level off at a certain speed.

Google for TCP transmission window if you're interested in finding out
more.

For small HTML documents with little or no graphics you probably won't
notice a difference between different access speeds, as the
transmission window hasn't had chance to open fully by the time the
document's been delivered.

Jake

"Spack" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Ken" <noone@nowhere> wrote in message
> news:422428f0$0$8751$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > As far as I understand it it makes little difference when surfing the
net
> > only when downloading.
> >
> > Is this true?
>
> Surfing the net is downloading - you download data from the web server. A
> faster line will improve the speed at which highly graphical sites are
> displayed as most browsers will only open up to 4 connections to a web
site,
>

Open up more 'max connections'

P
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