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To: ahhaha who wrote (13691)	8/6/1999 10:12:00 PM
From: E. Davies	Respond to of 29970

Unfortunately due to diversity of traffic and the primitive level of development of these technologies, going to the 'bone occurs the majority of the time. But apparently not so often that caching is a waste of time and money. Only people like Inktomi (INKT) (who writes the caching software) and @home know how much good it really does. I think the info would be quite interesting. As I said before my hypothesis is that caching only really has value in peak load conditions caused by a unusual condition. Another example would be cnn.com during a major news event. What I find most fascinating is that dial-up ISP's are starting more and more to use caching. What does that say about the quality of the connection between the ISP and the server? It says what I see all the time- that the "net" often cant even handle 56k at full speed, much less broadband. That fact alone may mean more to the subscriber/homes passed ratio that people want to admit. How many people say that SI really isnt any faster using broadband? Many. Who gets the blame when broadband is the same speed as dial-up? @home of course. This is why I once kept harping on the advantage of the @home backbone. @home should be a broadband app host to @home users on the @home network. Avoid the "internet" completely whenever possible. So far I dont see @home doing that. Eric