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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (1330)	6/13/1998 1:04:00 AM
From: Street Walker	Respond to of 14778

Browser Speed and SI In the past I have compared Netscape 3.x to IE 3.x for thread reading. I do not remember the specifics but Netscape was about 20 percent faster than IE for downloading SI posts. (older versions) IE 4.? does not work well with my system, I will probably try it when I configure a new machine. I tried IE 4.? and failed. I have witnessed the same. NS 2.20 is much faster than NS 4.05; and NS 2.20 is faster than IE 4 at downloading SI posts. Have not compared IE 4 to NS 4. S.W.

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (1330)	6/13/1998 10:18:00 AM
From: Dave Hanson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Sean or Spots may have a better guess than I, but I bet your Aptiva sluggishness is due primarily to a poor modem. Might be worth a moment of fussing to slap a better one in there and see what difference it makes. The other machine liabilities you mention shouldn't make much difference RE the problems you site.

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (1330)	6/13/1998 2:11:00 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Respond to of 14778

Zeuspaul, Thanks for that info. I guess it is just the speed of the whole process together that is faster sometimes and slower other times. I have a Cardinal 28.8 modem and downloaded the upgrade to 33.6 I ususally connect at 24K baud, sometimes 21K. I called the worldnet people (my provider) and they had me put an additional string in the file for the modem and also delete all netscape.hst files (which are temp files I guess). It did speed up the browser initially but now I seem to be about where I was. Usually it is not a problem, there are just times it slows a lot and it is very annoying. I'm glad to know I'm not missing anything with IE, I don't want to give in and use another Microsoft product if I can help it. <gg> cya, Bob