So how fast can you go?
Tuesday, August 7, 2001 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Just curious, what speed are you connected to the Internet?
Have the recent changes at WinCustomize made the site seem faster?
Have the recent changes at WinCustomize made the site seem faster?
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Sugaree
Reply #3 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 1:43 PM
28.8 here in the woods. 
and YES the changes have made a world of difference. Thank you!
Reply #3 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 1:43 PM
28.8 here in the woods. 
and YES the changes have made a world of difference. Thank you!
kwee2
Reply #4 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 1:44 PM
Reply #4 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 1:44 PM
LAN at work, cable at home; Yes, the site seems MUCH faster. Thank you so much!
Buzz_Hog
Reply #5 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 3:22 PM
Reply #5 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 3:22 PM
1.5 T-1 at work and 768 DSL at home. Definate improvements.
Frogboy
Reply #6 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 3:33 PM
Reply #6 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 3:33 PM
This is good feedback. When you're on a direct connection, it's hard to gauge any difference.
I was at my mom's neighbor's house the other day and he's on a 28.8k modem and WinCusto was unbearably slow. Loading those thumbnails took forever.
So I right clicked on them and just gasped, each thumbnail was nearly 30K. Display 10 of them and the thumbnails are 300K by themselves. Add another 80K in HTML and you're at nearly half a megabyte just for browsing a page.
We haven't found a solution for the objects and skins area yet though (lke WindowBlinds and IconPackager) since lowering the quality of the jpegs would really make it yucky.
I was at my mom's neighbor's house the other day and he's on a 28.8k modem and WinCusto was unbearably slow. Loading those thumbnails took forever.
So I right clicked on them and just gasped, each thumbnail was nearly 30K. Display 10 of them and the thumbnails are 300K by themselves. Add another 80K in HTML and you're at nearly half a megabyte just for browsing a page.
We haven't found a solution for the objects and skins area yet though (lke WindowBlinds and IconPackager) since lowering the quality of the jpegs would really make it yucky.
Buzz_Hog
Reply #7 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 3:37 PM
Reply #7 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 3:37 PM
Personally I think I noticed the difference when the server was revamped. Also, not letting icons load helped a bit as well.
Possibly this is from the server not needing to process the queries for the icons.
Anyways, the site is running and looking great. Thanks for putting forth the effort.
Possibly this is from the server not needing to process the queries for the icons.
Anyways, the site is running and looking great. Thanks for putting forth the effort.
BoXXi
Reply #9 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 4:22 PM
Reply #9 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 4:22 PM
I'm running a 56k flex modem made in 1902 I think!
The recent improvements have made a vast difference to me, thank you guys. also, spare a thought for me....whenever I download anything, the maximum transfer rate that I get is a heady 3.5kbs per second. Does anyone want to contribute to the "Get BoXXi DSL" fund? aah, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on.
The recent improvements have made a vast difference to me, thank you guys. also, spare a thought for me....whenever I download anything, the maximum transfer rate that I get is a heady 3.5kbs per second. Does anyone want to contribute to the "Get BoXXi DSL" fund? aah, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on.
BoXXi
Reply #11 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 4:26 PM
Reply #11 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 4:26 PM
Apologies to non-Brits who have never seen "Father Ted", and will not appreciate the above posts.
craeonics
Reply #12 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 4:28 PM
Reply #12 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 4:28 PM
Well, I'm not the slowest here then. 6k/s on my cable modem thing (yes, I know they're not supposed to go that slow), but most of the waiting time is pure parsing (damn tables). I have noticed a faster response though.
plainsong
Reply #13 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 4:29 PM
Reply #13 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 4:29 PM
512K Adsl.. and yeah we notice the speed increase. 
AJCrowley
Reply #14 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 4:30 PM
Reply #14 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 4:30 PM
girls....drink....feck....
Erm...I have ADSL, which is rather nice compared to the 'orrible ADSL I had in Vancouver. In Van, I had a 0.5Mb upstream, and 1.5Mb down, apparently, even though I never saw close to either of those numbers. Here I have 8Mb down and 2 up, which is refreshing. And yes, I have noticed the speed difference since the upgrades, I'm not sure precisely when they happened, but I've definitely seen a big improvement at some point within the last couple of weeks.
AJ
Erm...I have ADSL, which is rather nice compared to the 'orrible ADSL I had in Vancouver. In Van, I had a 0.5Mb upstream, and 1.5Mb down, apparently, even though I never saw close to either of those numbers. Here I have 8Mb down and 2 up, which is refreshing. And yes, I have noticed the speed difference since the upgrades, I'm not sure precisely when they happened, but I've definitely seen a big improvement at some point within the last couple of weeks.
AJ
Hell Dragon
Reply #16 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 6:54 PM
Reply #16 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 6:54 PM
56k here... and yepp there has been an impressive improvement, thanks
BoXXi
Reply #17 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 7:36 PM
Reply #17 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 7:36 PM
A.J., Is that 8mb per second download speed??!!!!*
Sheeeesh! I'd give my mouse arm for that!! I would be in internet heaven with those kind of speeds. I hate you! lol.
Sheeeesh! I'd give my mouse arm for that!! I would be in internet heaven with those kind of speeds. I hate you! lol.
BoXXi
Reply #18 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 7:38 PM
Reply #18 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 7:38 PM
My modem is so crappy, It can't even be flash upgraded to V90 !! clwyd cymru!!
misterME
Reply #19 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 8:28 PM
Reply #19 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 8:28 PM
1.4 Mb aDSL here. I noticed a marked improvement last week. Then everything got (relatively) slow again over the weekend. Now the picture pages are fast, but the message board is still slow (much slower than the end of last week). It takes between 12 and 20 seconds to actually respond to my request for it; it loads pretty quickly once that's done.
Plus, I can't seem to get my account to show the fullsize thumbs, even set to optimize for display. Must be a cookies thing. Now, to figure out how to manage cookies in WinXP...
Plus, I can't seem to get my account to show the fullsize thumbs, even set to optimize for display. Must be a cookies thing. Now, to figure out how to manage cookies in WinXP...
misterME
Reply #20 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 8:29 PM
Reply #20 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 8:29 PM
Arg. Now I can't get the stupid Cosby "Picture Pages" song out of my head. Poor choice of words on my part...
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Reply #1 Tuesday, August 7, 2001 1:17 PM
Yes, server resppnse seem to be faster indeed. Great improvement!