Re: Newbie, watch out

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 22:05 -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:

> 	We currently have a user end site fed by satellite. It is of course
> slow. When you web surf, they tell you to use their modem as a proxy to
> speed it up. I'm trying to see if I can speed it up even more using other
> equipment.

Some satellite-related optimizations involve looking at content and
prefetching embedded objects. If the modem/service provider tells you
they are doing things like that, you will probably need to use realistic
HTML content as a part of your content mix:
http://www.web-polygraph.org/docs/userman/csm/

Some other products reduce image quality to reduce image sizes. If this
is applicable, you will need to add realistic images into the mix, using
similar techniques.

In general, you have a rather complex setup. There are lot of
opportunities to produce meaningless results. Go slow. I would start
with very simple/basic tests at low load just to make sure that baseline
results (a) make sense and (b) are reproducible.

Good luck,

Alex.