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To: Louis V. Lambrecht who wrote (9533)9/26/2000 2:08:23 PM
From: AllansAlias  Respond to of 17977
 
Yes Louis,

I expect that the Lycos culture is "clicks and views", so they are probably throwing resources at the low-end or free services.

I have always suspected that they were the same servers. A serious outfit would not do that, but...



To: Louis V. Lambrecht who wrote (9533)9/26/2000 11:37:38 PM
From: ahhaha  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 17977
 
Adding a second computer and spliting the tasks would, to the contrary, result in less packets loss, hence reduce traffic.

By 1/10 of 1%. That doesn't explain away the bandwidth hogs.



To: Louis V. Lambrecht who wrote (9533)9/27/2000 4:49:32 PM
From: qcom_datadept  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 17977
 
Louis,

LiveCharts and our other web pages are supplied with data via seperate servers than what QCharts uses.

~Jay