[66957] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Thu Jan 29 19:38:49 2004
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: "Kevin Loch" <kloch@gurunet.net>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:37:07 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Thus spake "Kevin Loch" <kloch@gurunet.net>
> Nicole wrote:
> > In the past few days our AOL users have been reporting serious problems
>
> Several 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
