On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Gerhard Fasol wrote:
> In Japan it's flat-rate data now, so compression only slows
> things down, but does not make any change for
> flat-fee-all-you-can-eat data.
Actually it speeds things up atleast in two ways.
1) since there is less data it takes less time to transfer
the page from the server to the handset, thus making the
pages load faster.
2) since it takes less time to serve the page to
the handset, the server processes will available
sooner to serve the next request. This lessens the
load on the content server, thus speeding things
up.
> I think these packet compression things will die, as soon as
> flat-fee data become standard, as on the high-end in Japan now.
Flat-fee data has been the standard for a long time
in the "normal" land line Internet. Still the compression
has not gone anywhere. In fact usage of compression is
rising all the time. Mostly because admins get educated
about the possibility and benefits of doing it.
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Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/
Received on Wed Jun 30 22:32:07 2004