1. You waste most of time waiting for images: there are many bad web pages (hey, this is my humble opinion!) which contain a lot of huge gifs or jpegs, (and often these are useless)...Text is quite quick to download, but big images take more time. So my suggestion is: don't download them! Just say to your web browser that you don't want images (on Internet Explorer: Show/Options/General then don't check the 'show images' field - My IE is an italian version, so I hope my directions are right! - On Netscatpe - Navigator or Communicator - Preferences/Advanced then don't check the 'Automatically load images' field). When you find a great page and you want to see images, just click on 'load images' icon. Communicator allows visualization of : all images or just an image (you can click on 'load images' icon or click on the image which you prefer).
2. While you are waiting for a page, and that page is slow to download, open another browser window, then keep on netsurfing! You can open more than one connection at the same time (default is 4, but you can rise this value). So you can save a file on disk by FTP for example, search for another document by Alta Vista and keep on netsurfing!
3. Sometimes your browser seem frozen...you wait for a page, but that page seems dead. Well, try to stop downloading and then click on the reload button. Warning: by clicking on the reload button, you make your browser donload a cached page (and things couldn't change)...In this case, press the shift key and - at the same time - click on the reload button. So your browser will ask that page again to the web server.
4. Java is cool (although sometimes it can be dangerous), but sometimes there are some bad web pages (my humble opinion) where Java is useless. Well, disable Java and Javascript! Enable them only when you visit safe and helpful sites (like Alta Vista, of course). Netsurfing will be faster.
5. If you can, use a proxy server. If your ISP provide that service, use it! A proxy server is a big disk which contains all more frequently accessed documents by all users. If you are asking for a page contained on that proxy, your browser will download it from that cache. Faster.
6. Clean often the cache of your browser. On the contrary, when the cache is full, your browser start handling files contained in that cache...
7. You could use an off line browser: while you are watching a page, it download - you can notice nothing - all other pages. So, when you click on this or that URL, it will be soon available. There are also off line browser which download a whole site! Look at: http://www.freloader.net or http://www.ffg.com.
8. If you are searching for something, but you don't know what keywords you have to use, start with Yahoo; so, if your search find nothing, you will have collected a few of words that you could use for another search by means of another search engine like Altavista.
9. If you don't know what keywords you have to use for a search, use a synonymouses/contraries dictionary...
10. If your search yielded no results, try a specialized search engine!
11. If your search yielded no results, try a meta-engine like Metacrawler.
12. If you don't remember all search engines' syntax rules, use this quickreference!
13. If you are searching for scientific documents, try listserv's archives!
14. If you are searching for technical documents about the Internet, you have to see the right RFC (Request For Comments): try RFCsearch!
15. Inside the gopherspace, there are many technical documents: unfortunately nobody use gopher by now...So those documents are pretty outdated...
16. If you are searching for files, try Ftp search!
17. Did you Know that you can search for files or documents by e-mail? Well, you can use Gopher via e-mail or Listserv...
18. If all your searches yielded no results, and you have already seen the right Faq, put your question inside of a newsgroup!
19. When you are surfing with your favourite browser, try to click on the right button of your mouse; did you know that...if you are using Netscape, in this way, you can: go to the previous/next page, add a link in your bookmarks, see an image (if you have excluded all images), copy a link in the clipboard, and so on...
20. If you are using Netscape Comunicator, you can see all pages you have already seen by pressing Ctrl-h keys...
21. If you use Internet Explorer, all pages that you have already seen, are cached in your hard disk. So next, you will be able to see them offline; if you use Netscape, well, sometimes (too much times) pages aren't cached...
22. You can save an Html document and all its images by clicking on 'File', then 'Edit' and then 'Save' or 'Save as'.
23. Go to your favourite search engine and save its page in your hard disk. Then open the html document and edit the <FORM> tag so it points to the server location. Example:
    1. <FORM ACTION="/cgi-bin/search.cgi" METHOD="GET">

       after your editing:

    2. <FORM ACTION= "www.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi" METHOD="GET">
    3. In this way you won't have to wait for downloading the first page before make your first query. Besides, if you have turned off automatic image loading...well, your searches will be faster!
24. Use anchors in your searching. Example: by means of Altavista, you can search for images putting 'image:name_of_image.gif' in your query; or search for videos putting 'link:name_of_video.mov'; or search within a specific domain site by means of 'domain:name_of_domain'; and so on. Look my quickreference to know more...
25. If you want to download a file via FTP, you have to know that remote FTP server's time...So look at: IP Address to Latitude/longitude, then look at: Time and Date Gateway.

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