MrTorben
join:2004-12-14
Tampa, FL
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I attempted this on a 100mb pipe from a QWEST cybercenter, plugged straight into their internet backbone and while i got to math 101 page instantly, amazon's web server was so slow that IE eventually timed out with a "page can not be displayed" obviously at that point it was too late.
in theory i should have had a decent shot at this, as far as getting my request into their system but if their webserver can handle the requests, it doesn't really matter what your internet connection speed is.
they should have setup a plain small page to do this instead of all their usual fullblown bloated page.
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Warez_Zealot
Rural land of the rising sun
join:2006-04-19
japan
moderated:
November 23rd, @06:58PM
| said by MrTorben  :I attempted this on a 100mb pipe from a QWEST cybercenter, plugged straight into their internet backbone and while i got to math 101 page instantly, amazon's web server was so slow that IE eventually timed out with a "page can not be displayed" obviously at that point it was too late. in theory i should have had a decent shot at this, as far as getting my request into their system but if their webserver can handle the requests, it doesn't really matter what your internet connection speed is. they should have setup a plain small page to do this instead of all their usual fullblown bloated page. disappointing experience IMO it was a dumb publicity stunt. The same shit happened on the Bestbuy and futureshop.ca websites when they had the dumb brain wave to sell 10 ps3's an hour from 8am 3pm. The website was basically down every hour on the hour.. so pathetic.
When companies pull stupid stunts like this, it makes me not want to buy stuff from them when I am paying regular price.
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Warez_Zealot
Rural land of the rising sun
join:2006-04-19
japan | lol, oops.. guess my language was a little derogatory. 
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Techie714
join:2005-08-02
Anaheim, CA | reply to Warez_Zealot
I tried as well and at 11:00 sharp the whole webpage crashed. For the next 10 minutes I could not reach Amazon.com for the life of me. I'm VERY disappointed with Amazon!  |
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