- From: Bob Monsour <rmonsour@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:03:03 -0700
- To: "David W. Morris" <dwm@xpasc.com>
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
At 02:43 PM 4/22/97 -0700, David W. Morris wrote: >On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Benjamin Franz wrote: > >> majority of people browsing are doing so over modem links that *already* >> perform pretty good on the fly compression of the data flowing through >> them - thus reducing the potential savings to the end user from >> pre-compressing text/* to negligible. > >But the user's modem link is only one of many hops between the user and >the server so I don't agree that the fact of modem compression on one hop >negates the importance of compression of the original material. Most modem dial-up links employ PPP to initiate their connection and PPP compression, as implemented in Win95 and NT, negates most if not all of the effects of modem (v.42bis) compression. A bigger-picture issue for compressing HTML is the potential to reduce the number of IP packets traveling over those 'hops'. This is an effect that neither PPP nor modem compression can offer. The fewer packets handled at each hop, the more capacity available for other traffic at those hops and thus, more overall network improvement. That is, the raw 'local' efficiency of the compression is not the only benefit, even when that efficiency is relatively low. [snip...] Regards, Bob Monsour rmonsour@hifn.com
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