More Detailed Information
on How BrowseFast Works
- BrowseFast facilitates
Netscape Navigator and Windows 3.1, 95 and NT multitasking features.
Multitasking allows you to browse a web page and download from
different servers at the same time. Multitasking is like having
a telephone with multiple lines.
- Computers are subject to
the "weakest link" principle. Your response time depends
on your slowest device. The slowest device on your computer is
the modem. However, the internet may be much slower than
your modem. Obviously, there is no modem activity while you
are reading a loaded web page. It makes sense for another
browser to "cache" information.
- Your wait depends on the
popularity of an Internet server, the server's capability, the
time of day and sometimes the phase of the moon... There is no
way to predict which server has the best response time. So, with
BrowseFast you connect to multiple servers and use the
server which responds first.
- Winsock.dll(a Microsoft standard)
is the file which usually handles internet communications. Winsock.dll
is designed to communicate with multiple servers at the same time.
If the communications between the servers doesn't fully utilize
the modem, then it makes sense to talk with more than one server
to better utilize the modem.