Hello Kiddies,

I have awarded Deepak 4 points and a smiley for correctly answering my question.  If he correctly answers 2 more questions he will be eligible to be my friend.

Seriously though, the topic is straight out of an IT magazine that lobbed in my mailbox.  The key quote is "Even in countries where high bandwidth is cheaply and readily available, WAN (wide area network) optimisation technologies are able to solve the issue of application latency (delay) that adding more bandwidth (increasing internet connection speed) will simply not do."

This forum software is seriously sub optimal for professionals trying to earn a living with SW.  My understanding of HTTP (www) protocol is that every frame, graphic symbol, avatar, smiley, exploding/imploding image and button in a browser page requires a seperate and serial dialog between browser and server which incurs a delay while the browser waits for the server to respond.  These delays are cumulative and represent latency.

If you would be willing to junk the kiddies stuff in exchange for faster response to your browser requests, then please speak loudly.