Anyone getting faster internet page/image loading speeds?

It may be that your favorite websites recently switched over to using HTTP/2 or SPDY instead of the venerable HTTP 1.1. The new protocol speeds up page loads by multiplexing requests and responses and by allowing servers to "push" content in anticipation of the browser needing it before it asks for it.

 

Just the explanation I was looking for mainly because it's so dense and over my head that it possesses the right amount of logic that makes me feel good and eases my mind.

 

Can I use this information to increase download speeds? No. But I now have the right lingo to use to ask AT&T if they did any recent changes to their server protocols. I probably should do a search on the subject. I really don't want to get into a long conversation with AT&T's tech support.

 

Thanks for the wiki link.

 

Oh, and can someone suggest a very simple free email service? Yahoo wants me to upgrade to Pro or Premium to get rid of the intrusive ads. See below the inbox piggyback ad that attaches to my emails permanently.

 

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Poor Tim, instead of looking at his photos on his beautifully calibrated workspace he’d rather monitor the equivalent of paint drying.

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I have been directly involved in this field with big MSOs in the US and Europe. A lot of the big CER Edge routers are being upgraded, it is all about faster speeds, more efficient use of bandwidth, and increased capacity. I can't go into this much here. But I can tell you there are some big jumps in technology happening and more is coming. The times they are a changing. Your ISP speed is one part of the picture. The servers of the sites you visit also play a factor, how much bandwidth does the website servers you visit have, how fast are the hard drives read-write speeds on those servers. I imagine there is a lot of upgrading here on PN also. Enjoy the ride, the tech keeps getting faster. All we need are the flying cars and we will be the Jetsons. Edited July 26, 2018 by Mark Keefer

I have been directly involved in this field with big MSOs in the US and Europe. A lot of the big CER Edge routers are being upgraded, it is all about faster speeds, more efficient use of bandwidth, and increased capacity. I can't go into this much here. But I can tell you there are some big jumps in technology happening and more is coming. The times they are a changing. Your ISP speed is one part of the picture. The servers of the sites you visit also play a factor, how much bandwidth does the website servers you visit have, how fast are the hard drives read-write speeds on those servers. I imagine there is a lot of upgrading here on PN also. Enjoy the ride, the tech keeps getting faster. All we need are the flying cars and we will be the Jetsons.

Thanks for the helpful response, Mark.

 

I'm pretty happy with how fast most of the websites new and old download their pages as of now. I just don't understand what caused the noticeable slow down that started in January 2018 and returned to normal around the end of June. Further searches brought me to AT&T's community help forums where there were similar experiences even with customers with much higher bandwidth than my 12mbps but of course they didn't describe how slow in seconds. They just quoted their mpbs and that was it.

 

Some of the forum responses were from AT&T administrators and some from forum employees all requiring private messaging to solve the problem. Not a very helpful forum.

The OP talks about website speed (an important factor in Google search rankings). So is this about website speed or one’s ISP’s plan bandwidth speed? These aren’t necessarily directly related.

No, Phil. I am not talking about ISP bandwidth speed in mbps.

 

I'm talking about overall downloading of web pages timed in seconds. It got severely slow (time it takes to fully download web and email pages) for 6 months and then it returned to normal. I thought the slowness was the new normal. IMO there is no normal on the internet it seems due to the sheer complexity in how it all works.