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Reader Comments on Aardvark Daily 2 May 2003

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From: Owen
For : The Editor (for publication)
Subj: Quicksilver slipstream

I when I read that on the quicksilver website, I was pretty
sure it wasnt possible, which Bruce has more or less backed
up what I thought. I also tend to believe this new service
is aimed at ppl whom download more html than anything else.

What I would like to know is whether is will effect ping's
when playing online games? At the moment (I myself am a
Quicksilver customer) I get an average of 150 ping rate,
which is about the lowest you will get on a 56k.

I will sign up for the service for a few weeks to see what
it's capable of and I will post a review of it if you like




From: Owen
For : The Editor (for publication)
Subj: Quicksilver Slipstream - 2

You state that images are already compress with the modem
as it's being sent, how is quicksilver going to speed that
up?

http://www.quicksilver.co.nz/slipstream/install.html

On the beginning of that page is the answer, depending on
your slipstream settings, the image is downloaded to
quicksilver, then their servers reduce the quality of the
image, thus reducing the size of the image and it downloads
faster. If you ask me that is cheap tactic, you might as
well disable images all together - at least you wont have
screwed up looking images on peoples webpages

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