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.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

11 minutes ago, j7n said:

not a web browser in typical use

We're veering off-topic, so I'll make this my closing remark.

10 is plenty for "browsing", per se.  And having "fast internet" can sometimes cause more harm than good.

I *intentionally* "throttle" my connection when streaming from my "tv provider" (I don't have a "tv", everything is streamed via computer or laptop).

I "throttle" all the way down to 100 KB/s [so literally 1/100th of 10 MB/s] (I get buffer-lag at 75 KB/s but ZERO buffering issues at 100).

 

This *forces* my "tv provider" to *STOP* sending me 4k resolution video streams!  I have no use for 4k because it pegs my very old laptop's CPU at 100%.
Why would I watch an hour or so here and there or an entire Sunday with the CPU pegged at 100% for the entire time?  Would KILL this laptop in a matter of days.

100 KB/s seems to be perfect for 720p streaming "on the side" (more than fine for laptop display as "background" to real computer adjacently performing real tasks).
That drops CPU to below 28%.

300 KB/s seems to be perfect if I want to "allow" my tv provider to send 1080p.
At the expense of bumping the CPU up to around 35% and that's enough for the fan kicking up to a higher RPM occasionally.