Need Speed test comments please

[MorganGrayson]

OK...I now have a technical question that may or may not be even answerable.

Why are there so many different responses? When I clicked that link the site loaded so fast I thought any problems had been repaired. (I scrolled all the way down and all the graphics had loaded in that same half-blink.)

I have Cox Cable and the only good thing you can say about these people is that a lot of fun can be had with the name. (My very first cable installation was done by Technick via phone and a sixteen-year-old hacker pal of my daughter's.) I surely didn't imagine *I'd* be the one to say "loaded in half a blink." I figured it would be somebody working with much more powerful equipment.

[DrGuile]

Originally Posted by MorganGrayson

OK...I now have a technical question that may or may not be even answerable.

Why are there so many different responses? When I clicked that link the site loaded so fast I thought any problems had been repaired. (I scrolled all the way down and all the graphics had loaded in that same half-blink.)

I have Cox Cable and the only good thing you can say about these people is that a lot of fun can be had with the name. (My very first cable installation was done by Technick via phone and a sixteen-year-old hacker pal of my daughter's.) I surely didn't imagine *I'd* be the one to say "loaded in half a blink." I figured it would be somebody working with much more powerful equipment.

Two simple enough answers.

1. you already loaded the site in the past. So it's already "on your computer". Since its loading from what's called 'cache' it will be hella faster.

2. Think of the internet as a road system. More than one road lead to Anthony's servers and some are longer, have lower speed limits and are simply more congested... hence the different results.

[Inabon]

Originally Posted by DrGuile

Two simple enough answers.

1. you already loaded the site in the past. So it's already "on your computer". Since its loading from what's called 'cache' it will be hella faster.

2. Think of the internet as a road system. More than one road lead to Anthony's servers and some are longer, have lower speed limits and are simply more congested... hence the different results.

add to that the fact that your ISP may be overselling your bandwidth. as in 2 people or 4 or 10 on the same line. yeah yeah adsl you have a dedicated line but thats from the core router to your house but incoming to the core router maybe oversold.

but in this case there are several issues we are fixing. however the site is graphic intensive

ttyl
back to work on his shit.

[Trev]

I think 17 seconds for a site full of graphics like that is a damn good speed, and it's taking 24 hops to get there. I think that's excellent

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by DrGuile

Two simple enough answers.

1. you already loaded the site in the past. So it's already "on your computer". Since its loading from what's called 'cache' it will be hella faster.

2. Think of the internet as a road system. More than one road lead to Anthony's servers and some are longer, have lower speed limits and are simply more congested... hence the different results.

I've never been there before, so it wasn't in my cache...so it's door number 2!

Thank you for the simple, coherent answer, DrGuile.

From now on, DrG is in charge of answering technical questions for me!