TimmyH
How to Boost Your Download Speed
August 28th 2008 06:46
Access to the Internet is becoming increasingly vital in the developing world. Computer scientists in Pakistan have begun development of a system which will boost download speeds by allowing people to share bandwidth. The hope being that this will allow third world users to create a massive Internet mesh.
In the developed world, ISP’s create Web caches to boost their customer’s browsing speed. When people view Web content they can retrieve the info from the cache not directly from the host.
In countries like Pakistan, only very small caches exist, which mean that:
"In Pakistan, almost all the traffic leaves the country," says Umar Saif, a computer scientist at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). That's the case even when a Pakistani user is browsing websites hosted in his or her own country. "The packets can get routed all the way through New York and then back to Pakistan," Saif says.
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In the developed world, ISP’s create Web caches to boost their customer’s browsing speed. When people view Web content they can retrieve the info from the cache not directly from the host.
In countries like Pakistan, only very small caches exist, which mean that:
"In Pakistan, almost all the traffic leaves the country," says Umar Saif, a computer scientist at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). That's the case even when a Pakistani user is browsing websites hosted in his or her own country. "The packets can get routed all the way through New York and then back to Pakistan," Saif says.
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