AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown

Fri Jan 30 00:37:07 UTC 2004

Thus spake "Kevin Loch" <kloch at gurunet.net>
> Nicole wrote:
> >  In the past few days our AOL users have been reporting serious problems
>
> Several Brickshelf users have complained about the new "blurry images"
> problem using AOL.  I have not heard any reports of broken images or
> upload problems yet.

In the past, some ISPs have used a quality-reduction algorithm on images to
"speed up" dialup users' experience; I assume that's what AOL has adopted.

This reminds me of an old saying, "you can make any computation go faster if
you don't care if it gives the right answer."

S

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