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To: GraceZ who wrote (19859)	2/25/2000 11:56:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Tests like this one, Speedguide, etc., vary quite a lot. They should be independent of your browser once you factor out IE's inherent speed advantage. At any time if you repeat the test every 20 seconds you can get an idea of the bursty load of the Net and the variability in speed.

To: GraceZ who wrote (19859)	2/25/2000 11:57:00 PM
From: gpowell	Respond to of 29970

plain vanilla IE5..........speed check is 972 kbs @Home version of Netscape speed checks at 111 kbs Your proxy server must be slow. I just ran a speed test @ computingcentral.com Using @home 1.7 - netscape version, but bypassed the proxy server. My results: 1026.4 kbs, or in other words 125.8K Run another comparison speed test again at the above link, additionally run the @home version using a direct connection to the internet setting.

To: GraceZ who wrote (19859)	2/26/2000 12:08:00 AM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 29970

One thing that is fast is the growth in revs: Excite@home is #2 on the Fast 500 list: us.deloitte.com

To: GraceZ who wrote (19859)	2/27/2000 2:47:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 29970

I'm using Roadrunner and Netscape on Windows 98, and an elderly Dell PII300 with 64 megs of SDRAM, but a nice, new Riva TNT-2 graphics accelerator with 32 megs of on-board ram, and a Toshiba PCX1000 cable modem, and speedus.com clocks my rig at 4464 kilobits/second. :)

To: GraceZ who wrote (19859)	2/28/2000 3:08:00 AM
From: KailuaBoy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Grace, How can ATHM take control of the user experience such that this doesn't happen? Is there a way that ATHM can keep you from running comparisons? Why should you as a consumer be performing speed comparisons with multiple browsers? Gimme a break. This is too easy. Did GE expect the first microwave oven users to run baked potato comparisons across platforms? Nope. The end user experience dictates who will command respect and subsequently...you're dough. ATHM won't do anything with content creation that 1,000 geeks in their bedrooms on prom night couldn't do. They would do well to not provoke the geeks. Let me say this another way.....ATHM OUT OF CONTENT CREATION!! NOW!!! OY vey.