[huskerlug] Re: Size of pipe to your house

So, when I download knoppix ISO which is 733Mb but
represents a compressed 2.3Gb of stuff, I am tripling
my bandwidth?  So, the definition of bandwidth
includes BOTH data per second, and actual information
per second, when that data is a compressed form?
 
--- Steve <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Think about it every time you download a
> compressed file you are
> > effectively increasing you band width by that
> factor.  If you download a
> > file that 50% compressed then in effect you have
> "doubled" your BW? Only
> > going to take half as long which it what you would
> get with double the BW.
> 
> Browsers that support HTTP 1.1 already have support
> for uncompressing content 
> on the fly.  And, there is a module for Apache
> called mod_gzip that 
> compresses all content sent out.  The two work hand
> in hand.  
> 
> I was using it until I switched from Apache to
> public file.  It does make 
> quite a difference unless the web site is already
> heavily populated with 
> pics.
> 
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