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Re: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen () sprunk org>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:37:07 -0600
Thus spake "Kevin Loch" <kloch () gurunet net>
Nicole wrote:In the past few days our AOL users have been reporting serious problemsSeveral Brickshelf users have complained about the new "blurry images" problem using AOL. I have not heard any reports of broken images or upload problems yet.
In the past, some ISPs have used a quality-reduction algorithm on images to "speed up" dialup users' experience; I assume that's what AOL has adopted. This reminds me of an old saying, "you can make any computation go faster if you don't care if it gives the right answer." S Stephen Sprunk "Stupid people surround themselves with smart CCIE #3723 people. Smart people surround themselves with K5SSS smart people who disagree with them." --Aaron Sorkin
Current thread:
- AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown Nicole (Jan 29)
- Re: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown Kevin Loch (Jan 29)
- Re: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown Stephen Sprunk (Jan 29)
- Re: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown Daniel Senie (Jan 29)
- Re: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown Nicole (Jan 30)
- Re: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown Stephen Sprunk (Jan 29)
- Re: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown Brian Bruns (Jan 29)
- RE: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown Benjamin Chase (Jan 29)
- RE: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown Chris Parker (Jan 29)
- RE: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown Benjamin Chase (Jan 29)
- Re: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown Brian Bruns (Jan 29)
- Re: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown JC Dill (Jan 30)
- Re: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown Brian Bruns (Jan 30)
- Re: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown Kevin Loch (Jan 29)
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- Re: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown webmaster (Jan 30)