<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Ed Kraus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eykraus@gmail.com">eykraus@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
i can get 160kb/ps when i use DAP (download accelerator plus)... <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Depending on how it works, that's not too surprising. Web pages (and their related css / js) are highly compressible with no loss. If it also uses image compression and scaling then there will be a loss of quality in the graphics to gain further speed-ups.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Another thing you can do in this scenario if you have multiple computers in your house is to install a transparent squid proxy.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd hope that a VPN client would also use some equivalent of SSH compression to get similar benefits to DAP.</div>
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