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Friday, November 19, 2010

An Internet Speed Problem the NBN Won't Fix

Has anyone else noticed that despite a reasonably fast link web pages are taking a good while to load and the culprit appears to be all the page links and advertisements being looked up as the pages load. Examples that are a real pest seem to be Doubleclick, user counters and similar (up to 10 or 15 seem to be looked up before you get your requested page).

Hey Senator Conroy - can we ban all this along with the porn for a pure and fast NBN!

David.

3 comments:

AnonymousNovember 22, 2010 10:49 AM
One word ... Adblock

You control the situation, not your ISP or any other entity in the chain.
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Dr David G More MB PhDNovember 22, 2010 10:56 AM
Not sure I follow. Please explain.

David.
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AnonymousNovember 25, 2010 11:57 AM
Use Firefox web browser (http://www.mozilla.com), install the Adblock add-on (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865/). It automatically blocks ads, giving a faster page load and less page clutter.
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