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  2. Why is my computer so slow? - AOL

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    Slow Internet Browsing: If web pages take a long time to load or your internet connection feels sluggish, it could be due to issues with your internet service provider, router or malware affecting ...

  3. Browser wars - Wikipedia

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    It was the last version of Internet Explorer to be released for Windows XP. Internet Explorer 8 scored 20/100 in the Acid3 test, which was much worse than all major competitors at the time. [33] In October 2010, StatCounter reported that Internet Explorer had for the first time dropped below 50% market share to 49.87% in their figures. [34]

  4. TCP congestion control - Wikipedia

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    The transmission rate will be increased by the slow-start algorithm until either a packet loss is detected, the receiver's advertised window (rwnd) becomes the limiting factor, or slow start threshold (ssthresh) is reached, which is used to determine whether the slow start or congestion avoidance algorithm is used, a value set to limit slow start.

  5. Web performance - Wikipedia

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    Faster website download speeds have been shown to increase visitor retention and loyalty [1] [2] and user satisfaction, especially for users with slow internet connections and those on mobile devices. [3] Web performance also leads to less data travelling across the web, which in turn lowers a website's power consumption and environmental ...

  6. Extended Copy Protection - Wikipedia

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    Extended Copy Protection (XCP) is a software package developed by the British company First 4 Internet (which on 20 November 2006, changed its name to Fortium Technologies Ltd) and sold as a copy protection or digital rights management (DRM) scheme for Compact Discs.

  7. Internet Explorer - Wikipedia

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    Internet Explorer 7 is the seventh major version of Internet Explorer, released on October 18, 2006, for Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1 and as the default web browser for Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Embedded POSReady 2009. IE7 introduces tabbed browsing.

  8. Bandwidth throttling - Wikipedia

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    without bandwidth throttling, a server could efficiently serve only 100 active TCP connections (100 MB/s / 1 MB/s) before saturating network bandwidth; a saturated network (i.e. with a bottleneck through an Internet Access Point) could slow down a lot the attempts to establish other new connections or even to force them to fail because of ...

  9. Rate limiting - Wikipedia

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    In computer networks, rate limiting is used to control the rate of requests sent or received by a network interface controller. It can be used to prevent DoS attacks [1] and limit web scraping. [2] Research indicates flooding rates for one zombie machine are in excess of 20 HTTP GET requests per second, [3] legitimate rates much less.