On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Jinx wrote:

> > He means compression on the fly. Modems can compress files
> > as they send them and transparently decompress on the other end.
>
> Hmmm. OK, consider this. These two captures of NetMedic (a great
> little utility BTW) show a download of 39564a.pdf from the same
> Microchip link 10 minutes apart. Spot the difference ? One of them
> took a really long time, the other was going like a stolen car in the
> fast lane

Two words:


Browser cache.

Dale

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