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Retric on Dec 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Page Weight Matters

Dropped packets are directly related to "page weight" and get worse depending on latency.

400 round trips * 500ms latency is 3 min 20 seconds. This took 20 minutes to load 1 megabyte.

foobarian on Dec 23, 2012 [–]

In other words the bandwidth really is something like 6.6 kbps instead of the nominal rate.

(Really, did anyone ever get the nominal 56k modem rate back in the day?)

keithpeter on Dec 23, 2012 | | [–]

Yes as it happens, pretty close. Unfortunately British Telecom had a policy of dropping data connections after 2 hours in those days...

masklinn on Dec 23, 2012 | | [–]

No.

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