Guest qstick Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 I hate having a dial-up conection, but it is the only choice out here in the boonies. I keep seeing ads (especially on Yahoo) about accelerator's that will make a dial-up connection 4x faster....do these things really work as advertised? How noticeable is the difference? If anyone is using one of these accelerators, is there a specific brand (site?) that you would reccomend? Thanks, Zach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 Yes, and I've seen ads for breast enhancement, too. And other... things. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasag93 Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 If AOL 9.0 has it(?) I can't tell. It works from what I have heard by using some type of memory to download webpages faster. It does not increase your download or uplaod speeds. It just accelorates web surfing. Guess that is better than nothing. Would be able to surf BE.com faster. TXAG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn jones Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 cable modem is the only thing that helps dial up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Run n Gun Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 The ones I’ve seen work by “pre-fetching” (God only knows if I’ve remembered the right phrase). When you’re viewing a web page (like this one) it will start downloading all of the links available to you. When/if you choose a link and click on it your machine already has a head start and the page will appear much quicker. Does it work? Sure with my wife’s surfing style she noticed quite a difference. Me? I tend to rush things, impatient to get to where I want to go and I didn’t allow enough time on each page for the program to get much of a head start so all I noticed was how BIG the “Temporary Internet Files” folder was getting. I feel your pain! I too sang the “in the country dialup blues” for what seemed like an eternity. Not to rub salt in your wounds but I just downloaded a 9.5 MB file in 6 seconds (yeah baby!). Good luck, Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 TANSTAAFL Only less wire between you and the remote modem location will speed up data transfer rate on a Telco dialup line. Only a real high speed connection technology like ADSL will actually give you a connection speed faster than 56Kbs over the Telco wiring system. Most of these snake oil applications for surfing faster just keep track of places you go and after you have been there once (at normal speed) they use locally cached versions of the images and other fixed page content so the page loads faster on subsequent visits than if all of the content was being downloaded each time. This is slight of hand to make it look look like it's faster, but it ain't! I am personally not aware of any technology which will move data bits faster than the speed at which they are already traveling. Regards, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shred Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 There are also a couple systems that compress the heck out of whatever images (and other stuff) you're fetching.. it'll be faster, but it'll look like Monet was painting where the pictures should be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h4444 Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 There i$ al$o broadband $satellite acce$$ available today. For upload$ you $till need a dialup connection and will be limited by the 56k limit, but dowload$ are much fa$ter. But a$ you can $ee from my little hint$,,,,it i$n't cheap. :-) H4444 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 I think you can do two-way sat. broadband as well (no phone line). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Di Vita Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 I have two-way sat broadband. Download speeds are good...not great, but good. Upload speeds are little better than dial-up. It's little more than $100 a month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 Damn Stalion, For that much a month you should be getting T1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Di Vita Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 Yeah I wish. Unfortulantly, the only things available where I live are dial-up (the FASTEST I've hooked up here was around 20k) and satellite. The houses NEXT to me have cable...yet for some reason the company will not run a 100 ft. line to my house so I can get it...EVEN if I pay for it. Should be a vent... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricW Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 The houses NEXT to me have cable...yet for some reason the company will not run a 100 ft. line to my house so I can get it...EVEN if I pay for it.Should be a vent... If you get along with your neighbors and they already have broadband, you could easily put in a WiFi repeater to cross the 100 feet and bring broadband into your house. Then you could split the cost of their service with them. Before I moved, my neighbors and I were seriously thinking about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vluc Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 Tweak your modem as much as possible, as well as having your software optimize MTU's and all that good stuff. A nice program that I've found helps my dial-up connection is Throttle. Throttle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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