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Re: MTU of the Internet?
From: Scott Whyte <swhyte () cisco com>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 19:47:59 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Phil Howard wrote:
Users also perceive a better response if all the images are loading in parallel as opposed to them loading one at a time, even if the MTU setting to accomplish this smoothly has a net effect of a longer time for a complete load of all images.
IIRC, Mosaic was (is?) the only browser to force all the data to come on one connection. And we all see how popular Mosaic is nowadays, unfortunately the market has spoken when it comes to perceived response versus true response. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Whyte 408.527.5713 |Any opinions expressed herein are Network Supported Accounts (NSA) |mine and not cisco's... CCIE 3340 | | "Eschew Obfuscation"
Current thread:
- Re: MTU of the Internet?, (continued)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Sean M. Doran (Feb 08)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Eric Osborne (Feb 04)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Perry E. Metzger (Feb 04)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Tony Li (Feb 05)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Jim Dixon (Feb 05)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Eric Osborne (Feb 05)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Frank Kastenholz (Feb 05)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Ron Fitzherbert (Feb 05)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Sean M. Doran (Feb 07)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Sean M. Doran (Feb 07)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Scott Whyte (Feb 05)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Steve Carter (Feb 05)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Phil Howard (Feb 05)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Perry E. Metzger (Feb 05)
- The 'tude [Was MTU of the Internet?] Steve Carter (Feb 05)
- Re: The 'tude [Was MTU of the Internet?] Perry E. Metzger (Feb 05)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Jeff Stehman (Feb 05)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Marc Slemko (Feb 05)