Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 15:32:06 -0700 From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah) To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cable modems Message-ID: <199808232232.PAA18495@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 Aug 1998 14:59:09 CDT." <19980823145909.B4556@emsphone.com>
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--==_Exmh_-1949627604P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Dan Nelson wrote: > BTW, it looks like the reason that cablemodems are so blazing fast is > that they simply proxy everything. Just about everything except telnet > is cached. Excuse me? While I'm not sure that I'd characterize ssh, X11, and cvsup over @Home as "blazing fast", they're all reasonably snappy, and I'm fairly sure that none of these applications have their data proxied or cached by @Home. :-) Not to nitpick, but it's the ISPs that decide if they want to support proxies for different applications or not. The cable modems themselves don't have anything to do with proxying, and if they didn't deliver a decent bitrate to the end users, all the proxying in the world wouldn't help. [1] Now if you were to say that, in general, the cable modem ISPs improve their customers' Web browsing performance through the use of aggressive caching, I'd be in solid agreement. Cheers, Bruce. [1] With the exception of proxies that do transcoding or resolution reduction. --==_Exmh_-1949627604P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNeCYZajOOi0j7CY9AQHfJwP9GzM8T13qVaQTJczBFLSrsVD2HwAEPcLd UG6lCuG7Jny7jaIVJQLPmpfklFmMretUOZmdM1NOLNcnFveb9bAq/WYFB8AxPWuK lwJfhlOzzfhQXuRa+ErSGNJFM/Mprp785XUuTDUFkkwpOgxEytgp9gMcMR83Wk/K lVuec9Sc/3c= =xskL -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --==_Exmh_-1949627604P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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