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to: RICHARD GLIDDEN
from: STEPHEN HAFFLY
date: 1996-08-05 19:59:00
subject: Internet Adventurer

On (01 Aug 96) Richard Glidden wrote to Keith Thomson...
JP>> It IS faster on my computer.  I thought that it seemed to be loading
JP>> pages much faster the Web Explorer did, so I used the handy-dandy
KT> That's odd, Since WebEx & Internet Adventurer are virtually the same
KT> program. with a diffrent front end.
 RG>   The author or Internet Adventurer made a few optimizations.  Most
 RG> noticeable is that the page can load 8 graphics at once, compared to
 RG> the 4 that WebEx uses.  I found that loading 8 graphics at once really
 RG> sped up the page, as it often takes a long time to connect to the
 RG> location of some graphics, and sometimes one or two graphics will stop
 RG> transfering for a while.  Loading 8 graphics seems to use the
 RG> available bandwith more efficiently.
The optimization for 8 threads for graphics downloading is a simple
matter for Web Explorer also.  In the settings, simply add -t 8 to the
parameters line for the program.  Let me know how it works for you.
In reality, this would be a more suitable topic for OS2INET.
TTYL,
Stephen
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