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Subject: Re: FLASH: flash load movie issues!!56k modem BANNED!
From: Muzak
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 17:40:28 GMT

you don't really need a 56k modem, just use WebSpeedOptimizer, which will mimic any modem connection you want.
It's great for testing loaded movies.

http://xat.com/wo/index.html

hth,
Muzak

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brack, Jeremy" <Jeremy [dot] Brackatimgusa [dot] com>
To: <flasheratchinwag [dot] com>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 9:22 PM
Subject: RE: FLASH: flash load movie issues!!56k modem BANNED!


> Hey Scott,
> At my company, they are banning us from getting a 56k modem for site
> testing, and this is making it nearly impossible to guess if any of our
> sites will actually work in the outside world. I was wondering if your
> company allows you the use of a 56k modem for testing the load movie
> commands. We just started making heavy use of Load Movie commands here, and
> of course every Flash movie works perfectly on our internal 100Mb LAN. But
> when I go home, and I take a glance at almost any of our latest websites..
> all hell breaks lose..
> If the loaded movie isnt timed correctly or doesnt have the scripts loaded
> at the correct time, then massive sections of the website are not viewable.
> After reading your e-mail and learning that different browsers load movies
> differently.. I can see that the situation is much worse than I could ever
> imagine..
>
> I am curious if any Web Designers out there are also being banned from using
> 56k modems for testing websites?
> If you are being banned from using 56k modems, did they give you a reason
> why?
>
> Our IT department thinks that a 56k modem is useless, and that if it runs
> perfectly on our LAN, then it will work fine everywhere. I only wish they
> would listen to the web designers for once.



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  Re: FLASH: flash load movie issues!!56k , Matt

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