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[Wayne 962]

After visiting a rival board today, I quickly realized that I wasn't using my server's configuration to it's best potential.

So.... I have reconfigured some compression settings, that should have resulted in about a 80% increase in forum speed!

However, there may be different bugs / problems associated with this change.

Please let me know if you are having any problems.

wayne@pelicanparts.com

-Wayne

[philfran]

I have noted a significant difference today. Much, much faster! Ilove it!

Thanks, Wayne,
Phil

[Wayne 962]

I'm having a problem in IE where if I hit 'refresh' on the page, it seems to drop the first few bytes of the page. Anyone else have this, or is all a-okay?

-Wayne

[12own911]

Wayne, it is definitely much quicker in its response but I am also dropping bytes upon refresh with IE 6.0.

[Wayne 962]

I think that the Microsoft Refresh bug may have to be tolerated for the increase in speed...

-Wayne

[Bill Verburg]

I still can't access my Motor City page to modify it.

[ischmitz]

A couple of times the grafics (buttons, smileys, etc) do not load on the first attempt. They seam to come from somewhere else.

Sometimes, when PP was not reachable and became available again, the grafics took longer to recover.

Not sure if it is related to your upgrades, though since it started about a week ago.


Ingo

[Wayne 962]

Not related, but good info - I have seen this problem before...

-Wayne

[DJB]

Yes much faster - even at the end of the world.

[jester911]

Seems a little quicker although I have adsl. I do get junk at the top of the screen after hitting refresh.

[dd74]

Wayne: the first time I hit refresh after coming onto the page, all avatars were in place except your pelican avatar. There were no problems with the refresh feature after that.

My tests were:

1) access the page, click refresh. Result: pelican avatar missing.

2) refresh same page a second time. Result: pelican avatar reappears. (This was also the result with three more "refreshes").

3) click off page, then click back on. Result: all avatars and text in place.

4) refresh same page after clicking off/back on. Result: all avatars and text in place.

Looks like everything loads fine. The pages are definitely faster. After refresh is hit several times, all text and images appear.

I'm using I.E. 6.0.

Thanks for the update.

[pwd72s]

Wayne? My problem? This is so fast, even with my bottom line old computer and only a dial in connection, I don't want to go elsewhere. Oh...it just dawned on me. That's your goal, right?

[masraum]

As I posted in the poll, the improvement is huge. I have 1.5 Mb DSL and see a big difference in Netscape 7.01 and IE6. I have all of the latest updates and service packs.

I have tried refreshing the page several times and have seen no difference in before, after, or during.

Wow, I guess this is similar to when some of the guys realize thier throttle isn't opening all the way.

[widebody911]

I have the dropping problem bad with Netscape 4.8 on HP-UX 11.11 (PA-RISC), which makes the PP site look like the rival site at times now...

If you want, I have a wide variety of OS's to test from: AIX 4.1 -> 5.2; Solaris 6 -> 9; HP-UX 9 -> 11.20; RedHat 6.1 -> 8.0; also Debian, Suse, TurboLinux, and Dec/Compaq/HP Tru64

[Wayne 962]

Yes, it is just like the throttle thing. I apologize to the modem users for not figuring this out earlier...

I hear that IE 5.5 and early 6.0 are buggy with respect to this issue - that's why I ask. MS has a patch for this issue, but it needs to be applied to the browser - not my server...

-Wayne

[eion]

Originally posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts
I hear that IE 5.5 and early 6.0 are buggy with respect to this issue - that's why I ask. MS has a patch for this issue, but it needs to be applied to the browser - not my server...

Ah, that explains why I hadn't seen any problems (as a Win2k sysadmin, kinda, I'm pretty anal about applying updates promptly.

Anyway, I'm on dial-up here, and it does seem a lot faster. Wasn't terrible before, but it's much better now.

[Siena911]

wow, I normally use adsl when at work, but I'm at home now and this is really a big improvement.

Well done Wayne

Cheers Jakes

[nick-moss]

Big improvement noticeable on my .5 Mb ADSL, no refresh problems, IE6

[cegerer]

BIG speed increase. -- Curt

[usurpah]

Wayne,

I definitely feel the speed increase w/ the compression turned up. Also, no issues w/ dropping bytes, etc. I'm on Windows 2000 or Windows XP w/ IE 6. 6.0.2800.1106 to be exact.


Thank you again for hosting this board. I'm sure it takes a good amount of time and effort to administer. I hope it's working out as being a great lead source for Pelican business.

- Eric

Also, just clicked the Spell Check button and received a window of php errors.