My Browser Builds (Part 5)

[nicolaasjan]

12 hours ago, j7n said:

Something happened to Reddit literally just now. Loading has become slow on an old PC, it fetches about 800 requests and 30 MB to display 100 subscriptions. This is not a problem specifically with New Moon, as Opera 12 is also affected, but I have no other place to discuss old PC and old browser behavior. Seems like they have modernized "Old" reddit.

https://i.imgur.com/9xL6uJh.png

That's not `old.reddit.com` in the address bar. 🤔

I have the user script Reddit Old Redirect and the pages load quite fast here (but somehow I have not so many requests):

(max download speed here ~10MB/s 🙁)

[j7n]

I had selected to not use New Reddit in preferences. Apparently, now adding "old" to the address makes it faster again. Previously there was no difference, and I could get to the old reddit by following someone elses link without old. I see in the network log that it repeatedly loads the same things. And the scripts get processed again and again, causing the whole loading take about 1 minute.

https://i.imgur.com/WUe9nev.png

Scrolled down a bit, the same:

https://i.imgur.com/cyP79MP.png

I have talked to a couple websites in the outcome was just them saying to use modern stuff, so it is not really productive.

10 MB/s is the speed of fast ethernet, why the sad face, lol. The limitation as always is the load on the CPU from processing every piece,

[nicolaasjan]

4 hours ago, j7n said:

10 MB/s is the speed of fast ethernet, why the sad face, lol.

That's because I should be getting ~40MB/s.

I'm connected here in a rather weird way via cable from the providers modem in the neighbouring house to my router and then via cable to my PC.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

4 hours ago, j7n said:

10 MB/s is the speed of fast ethernet, why the sad face, lol. The limitation as always is the load on the CPU from processing every piece,

 

12 minutes ago, nicolaasjan said:

That's because I should be getting ~40MB/s.

 

10-40 MB/s sounds slow to me.  But I had to learn something new...

From here: https://www.techcalc.org/blog/mbps-vs-mbps-download-speed-explained

 

My wireless fluctuates between 46 and 66 MB/s.

So yeah, 10 on a wired is a definite sad face.  

 

[roytam1]

longstanding misskey.io issue will be somewhat fixed in next build.

[j7n]

10 MB/s is what I have and I am perfectly content with it, I could buy a replacemnt router with a gigabit port and get "up to" 300 Mbit, but I can't afford a decent mikrotik router. Only efficient old software can reach high speeds, not a web browser in typical use.