The TranSend Service

NOTE: If you are visiting this page through the TranSend proxy, the images on this page will be distilled, even though they are snapshots of distilled images! Turn off distillation to see these images as they were intended.

What is TranSend?

TranSend is a transformational proxy service running at the Computer Science Division of the University of California at Berkeley. The purpose of TranSend is to make web surfing a more pleasurable experience for the campus dial-in "home IP" population by eliminating the long wait times that students, staff, and faculty usually experience while downloading web content over modems.

How much benefit do I get from TranSend?

The following web downloads were performed using a Gateway 2000 P133 running Linux 2.0.27 and Netscape Navigator 3.0. Network connectivity was using a Ricochet wireless modem (approximately 20-30 Kb/s). Five pages were chosen as a fairly representative set of pages from the Internet; specifically, a mixture of graphics and text intensive pages were picked in order to give an idea of the experience a user will have using TranSend.

Site Total download time (seconds)
No ProxyQuality 1Quality 2Quality 3Quality 4Quality 5
E*TRADE 85 20 25 26 35 38
Motorcycle Online 76 23 25 28 38 45
Netscape 34 17 20 22 25 26
San Jose Mercury News 50 17 21 29 34 43
The Why Files 26 19 19 20 22 26

Who created TranSend?

TranSend is a part of the GloMop (Global Mobile Computing by Proxy) research project, being conducted in the Computer Sciences division of the University of California at Berkeley. TranSend was built by the following doctoral students: Undergraduate researchers: GloMop is part of a larger research project called Daedalus, which is developing a wireless testbed infrastructure for the Bay Area and technology that will allow mobile devices to roam seamlessly across heterogeneous wireless and wireline environments.

Daedalus and GloMop are funded by DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), Hughes Research Labs, Daimler-Benz Research,

For Further Information

Please contact the GloMop team members.