I run a couple of websites, through which I have come across a company called Cloudflare. Who are bascially a CDN with some added extras.
Recently, they have developed a technology for optimising the connection between the client web server and their CDN servers, called Railgun:
https://www.cloudflare.com/railgun This acts to optimise the connection between the two servers, which supposedly "achieves a 99.6% compression ratio for previously uncacheable web objects". I have noticed an improvement on my own sites, as they are hosted in the US, so the loading time in the UK has definitely improved.
I was just wondering, if you guys thought something similar could be used to optimise slow ADSL connections?
I'd imagine it would work, by having a proxy running on the users network, which would then connect to a server on the ISP network. The connection between which would be running on something similar to Railgun.
I guess this would be more of a benefit to people on really slow connections (i.e. below 2000kbps).