Originally Posted by
alanjrobertson
Thanks for the reply,
KVS. I'm really keen to get this working (esp as I've paid for Diamond for two months!) but I don't have anything like that sort of smooth experience so far. My internet connection is 8Mbps ADSL and I can easily stream BBC iPlayer HD streams, as well as quickly browse websites.
I tried some testing - here were my timings:
Checking for EDI-EWR *A award availability in May:
SNT: Awards/StarAlliance - initial search 1m50s; clicked 1 day forward - 1m24s
ITA: Awards/AC-StarAlliance - initial search 0m44s; clicked 1 day forward - 0m34s.
ANA website (timing from clicking the 'flight search' button once logged in) - initial search 0m10s; one day forward 0m18s
Any suggestions on how to improve matters would be much appreciated!
Just my 5c worth:
1) You are not fair comparing SNT and ANA the way you do. KVS has to go through the login process, so you should also time from "before login in" on ANA :-) Did you try timing how long it takes to go through the login process on ANA? I guess that KVS is login in every time it submits query, but I might be wrong... I am also guessing that KVS always does "the trick" to allow searches for those with zero balance on ANA. Perhaps you do not need to do so, but KVS does it just in the case? I am guessing here, but to do same the search directly on ANA from start to results (i.e. log in, do the trick so I can see all star Alliance and then do the real search) takes me definitelly longer than using KVS.
2) I am getting much faster responses from SNT when my laptop and I are at work then when we are at home. Why? Because both places route to the ANA site
VERY differently. You cannot just measure pings and speeds against randomly selected targets. Each ISP will route you differently and it may create slowness somewhere... I have seen cases where I reach some sites in less than 10 hops when at work and the same site over 20+ hops when at home.
3) One reason for slight timing differences might be that KVS uses msinet.ocx while modern browsers do not. There might be some inefficiency there...