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On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 08:02:37 -0500, "Martin Cole" <mj_cole_2000 at hotmail.com> wrote: > >Can anyone tell me how well the "request compression" works. > >Like, would it speed up the transfer of a project with many small files, or just speedup transfer of large files. > It depends on the speeds of the machines on both ends of the link, and the speed of the link. eg. over a dialup connection compression makes quite a bit of difference (saving an average 50% with text files) Over a 100MB network it's much less certain - if your server is only a P700 or similar the time taken doing the compression may not be worth the saving... it's quicker to let the network take the load. Tony