Category: network

The impact of network packet loss on HTTP latency

Over the course of my involvement [1] in my Indonesian company's website, the question of how to design a website to deal with slow and bad network links presented itself over several occasions as most of our users surf either over a mobile connection or a similarly dimensioned fixed line. While optimizing design and resources … Continue reading The impact of network packet loss on HTTP latency →

HTTP pipelining, Tomcat 7 and Firefox 4

During an optimisation cycle for Bazarooma aimed at further reducing latencies I started experimenting with Firefox' HTTP pipelining [1] feature, which is disabled by default. This can be enabled by typing about:config in the URL bar, locating the network.http.pipelining entry and setting it to true. While Firebug did not report any measurable improvement, it turned … Continue reading HTTP pipelining, Tomcat 7 and Firefox 4 →

HP Probook 4720s on Ubuntu 11.04 64bit

  Last Winter I posted [1] about installing Ubuntu 10.10 64bit on a HP Probook 4720s with 6GB RAM which was only a moderate success, as it required a manual driver update for the WLAN, the touchpad right-click would not work reliably and the external microphone produced only static noise. Now that the new Ubuntu … Continue reading HP Probook 4720s on Ubuntu 11.04 64bit →