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| Thread ID: 44231 | 2004-04-12 06:41:00 | Web accelerator program to load from cache. | KingWave (5517) | Press F1 |
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| 228858 | 2004-04-12 06:41:00 | I'm doing some work which involves a fair bit of uploading of text to a website using an online database management system. Unfortunately the pages are quite big <500kb because they have lots of small images for formatting the text etc. Each time I click on something it fully re-loads everything on the page. Now I'm thinking things would improve heaps if I had a program which would store most of the pages in a cache on the hard drive and only update the new stuff thats appeared on the website after each click. I'm using IE6 at the moment, I've tried mozilla firebird and Opera and they were heaps faster, but they don't display the website properly and functionality is impaired as its designed for IE6. The accelerator program needs to be free/open source as well. Can anyone offer any suggestions? Thank-you :) |
KingWave (5517) | ||
| 228859 | 2004-04-12 07:08:00 | you could try a proxy that has a cache as well. however getting good fre ones with a decent size cache is not easy. first thing i would do is try finetuning IE's cache. check the size of the cache isn't to big (eg over 50meg), try cachesentry (fixes and manges IE cache). have you tried setting the IE cache setting to "never" ? |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 228860 | 2004-04-12 09:05:00 | > have you tried setting the IE cache setting to "never" ? I tried that, things load quick but it doesn't show any new information thats been updated. > try cachesentry (fixes and manges IE cache). Tried that too, doesn't make any difference if any. Really I need something that will load predominantly from the cache, but if new information, then only update the new stuff. |
KingWave (5517) | ||
| 228861 | 2004-04-13 09:22:00 | You might like to try "slingshot.co.nz" They have a fixed rate dialup @ $16.95 plus an "Xcellorater" program which costs an extra $7 a month. It speeds things up by about 300%, but not on all files. It works through a Proxy on your Browser. I have used it on Opera, IE6 & Netscape 7. They have a 10 day trial period & you get your money back if it doesn't work. |
Mzee (158) | ||
| 228862 | 2004-04-13 10:04:00 | I use Smoothwall which has an option to cache webpages. It can speed up browsing to pages which you repeatably visit. Actually a good example of it working is when I update the virus signature file for AVG which is usually around 2MB. The first time I download it, it gets stored in the cache also and when I request it from the second pc its really really fast to download (from the cache). The potential downside, is you need an old pc to load Smoothwall and a real modem (I use an external modem). |
Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 228863 | 2004-04-18 07:19:00 | Yeah smoothwall looks interesting, but it looks difficult and time consuming to set up. Any more ideas? |
KingWave (5517) | ||
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