I am having a disagreement with a co-web developer I'm working with. He's insisting that having image width and height specified for images in the image tags is going to make an enormous difference in how fast this database driven site will render, while I feel that having the height and width called in the css for these images is enough. The site is very fast. [more inside]
posted on May 7, 2008 - 21 answers
My site's cron tasks eat up a lot of bandwidth. Can I change the paths from http to local? Or can I move the tasks to my home server? [more inside]
posted on Apr 5, 2008 - 18 answers 
Our office is setting up a satellite office in Hong Kong. We've always had trouble sending our large 5GB files to Asia. But our office in HK with have a 100Mb internet connection. We have a DS3 in San Francisco. We'll be using a proprietary third-party app to do the heavy lifting. Realistically, what does the hive-mind think we will experience in transfer speeds?
posted on Dec 4, 2007 - 6 answers
I'm considering downgrading my cable broadband from 512kbps-800MB/month to 256kbps-uncapped. I'd like to estimate the real-world hit in terms of casual web browsing and more intensive applications. [more inside]
posted on May 12, 2007 - 10 answers
I can barely upload anything and I've tried everything to fix it. [more inside]
posted on Feb 7, 2007 - 17 answers
Why don't DSL and cable providers compete on the amount of UPLOADING bandwidth they offer? [more inside]
posted on Jun 21, 2006 - 19 answers
What would be a good, small utility for tracking my inbound/outbound DSL bandwidth consumption (as an end user)? All the tools I'm Googling seem to be for system administrators... I'm not running a server.
posted on Jan 18, 2006 - 10 answers
Is there a nationwide (where nation = United States) service which provides wireless Internet coverage? [more inside]
posted on Sep 28, 2005 - 11 answers
I have a room with six computers, each with a copy of a few new FPS games. I want to play deathmatches, etc. (using all 6 computers) with people outside the room. What is the minimum recommended bandwidth to connect this room to the internets in order to maintain a high quality gaming experience? Does it matter how many people outside the room are playing or is the amount of data being passed in and out of the room fairly consistent regardless of whether there are, say 6 or 18 people playing outside the room?
Super bonus points for estimated monthly bandwidth costs at a commercial location in the DC metro area.
posted on Feb 12, 2005 - 7 answers
TechSupportFilter: When I upload (perfectly legal) bittorrent files at speeds greater than about 13 kbps, my Comcast internet connection gets completely swamped, and I'm unable to surf the web or download email. Comcast tech support has been out three times over the past month, and they're still scratching their heads. But I get the feeling they don't exactly know what they're doing. Does anyone have any idea what might be going on, or what further tests I should run to find out?
posted on Oct 13, 2004 - 14 answers
