Thu Sep 30, 2021 11:21 pm
Also you need to remember that compression of network traffic is becoming less and less effective as most network traffic is encrypted or already compressed.
E.g. in the past I had good results with compression of generic LAN traffic between offices, carrying e.g. SMB traffic which would be Office documents.
Using LZX compression on PPP links would yield a compression factor of 2-5.
But today office documents (.docx, .odt) are already compressed! So this is no longer compressible.
Similarly, HTML traffic is very compressible, but today it is usually carried over TLS (https://) which makes it incompressible again.
So when you get compression working, the results may be disapppointing.