change mtu

[Matthew Kuiken]

Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:28:51 +0200
> "Steen \"Miravlix\" Poulsen" <dragon at lix-world.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> tir, 01 08 2006 kl. 09:21 +0200, skrev Eberhard Roloff:
>>     
>>> Should you happen to use firefox, I would recommend to
>>> install the extension "fasterfox". I also found that at
>>> least on my computer Opera 9 (now in the Ubuntu commecial
>>> repo) seems to work notably quicker than even
>>> fasterfox-firefox does.
>>>       
>> Be warned that fasterfox is so network hostile that you risk
>> getting banned at a web site for using it.
>>
>>     
> I am sure, you will have a few example
> sites, where fasterfox using people have been banned. Just a few
> urls for test might be sufficient for me.
>
> Up to now, fasterfox just brought fun to my internet
> experience but no trouble at all. 
> So I would like to know where I am potentially being banned.
>
> In regard to your unpolite visitors
> I think a website basically exists to be accessed.
>  
> So it is more or less that you place your fridge outside your
> door and have your car placed in the driveway, windows wide open
> and key attached, waiting for people coming buy to drink and
> drive.
>   

This is a dangerous attitude. Many people who lease web space pay for it 
based on the amount of data downloaded from their site. Thus if you 
visit a site with 40 pictures on it, but only actually view two of them, 
you only cost the person a twentieth of what it costs when the same 
person views the same site, but uses fasterfox to download all of the 
pictures, but only views two.

If I was a web admin, I would seriously consider killing the connection 
of anyone whose usage patterns suggested that they were using said 
extension.

-Matt