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inet demos at 14.4 a breeze...



Amos Shapira writes:
 > Slow as it may seem compared to the MAN speeds we got used to at the
 > universities, I think that showing access to the Web should be a major
 > goal in the booth - this is the hottest thing people hear about in the
 > media, and showing Netscape/Xmosaic "just like on T.V." may creat big
 > waves.
 > 
 > I've seen a reasonable response with a decent 28,800 modem.  Does
 > anyone have access to such?  What about trying to hook to a booth
 > nearby with a good connection?

If you plan well, you can give an excellent internet demo with just a
14.4kbps modem.  The preparation is as follows:

    Using netscape (or cern httpd with caching), visit *every* page
    that you're going to visit during the demo.

Once you've done this, everything's cached on your local hard disk,
and there's almost no delay and no network load to go there again.

Dr. Harvey J. Stein
Berger Financial Research
hjstein@math.huji.ac.il