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InlineFive

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After installing it for one minute it has caused the ads to load 0.2 seconds faster! :)
 
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statik213

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looks like it ignores your hosts file.... i'm begining to see ads at AT, didn't see them before.

so that's wasted bandwidth for u...
 
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tedkelly

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Originally posted by: commOdog
good opinions on the /. already
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/04/2223238
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like this:
I can't really see what google (or anyone for that matter) can really do to accelerate web content on broadband connections. As I've said elsewhere, it sounds like they are running a caching server for you. I would guess you could get very near the same effect without the privacy problems with something like squid or Allegrosurf.

The only thing they might do is some compression, but this assumes a number of things to make your connection faster:

1) the content isn't already compressed. Lots of sites already gzip html etc...

2)The google servers have a faster connection to the server than you do (they might have a faster general net connection, but the effective speed changes by the minute due to server load, net congestion etc...)

3) Your connection to the google servers is faster than your connection to the destination server. This is likely true right now, will it be with massively more load - IDK.

4) Your computer can decompress content and run the google background process faster than it can recieve textual information over a pretty fast line. This might be true, it depends on your PC, and it's load.

The only thing I haven't talked about is whether google is going to compress images. Personally I think it'd be kind of stupid becasue:

1) they'd have to do it lossy, and so now pics look like crap.

2) broadband is rather fast for most web pics now adays. Broadband is just tending to get faster. It doesn't really have the limitations dial-up does that make this attractive in any way.

There is no good reason to sign up for this. Unless you like feeding more info about yourself to a big company, or can't manage to get effective caching through cheap or OSS software on your PC.
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borosp1

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yep its basically a public proxy server run by google. Too bad they keep stats on sites you visit. Its like big bro is everywhere now a days! :(
 
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unsped

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there is a way to have websites send there content via a tar/gzip etc... and have your client uncompress them. many websites do not employ this.... could be google is just doing it for you.
 
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Souka

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For those at work, you can surf "inappropirate websites" with this program.... it'll appear that you're just just hitting the google proxy a lot.....


Anyhow.... I have it installed on a test box that runs scripts for testing.

On a multiple T1 connection (via concentrator) it acutally slows down IE.... more like you click....wait....then page loads.

I guess this would be ince on Dial-up......maybe....

 
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thedealmaker

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In my experience in the past, web accelator is not useful. The browser cache itself seems to take care of most of the accerlation itself. Any thing more than that is taking too many space and improve too little to be noticable.
 
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