"Madhu Menon" <webguru at vsnl.net> wrote in message news:5.1.0.14.2.20021018171029.02678800 at 203.197.12.4... > And doesn't data coming down the modem get compressed automatically anyway > (either by hardware or software)? Any modern modem would indeed have software or hardware compression enabled, but the type of compression that is used is far less effective than having the server simply output gzipped pages. Take a look at http://www.digit-life.com/articles/compressv44vsv42bis/ if you want all of the gory details behind the implementation. Besides, when you're paying for server bandwidth by the gigabyte as most people are, the less that comes out of your server, the better. -- Regards, Jackson Yee jyee at vt.edu http://www.jacksonyee.com/