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Dial-up Download Accelerator

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flyted08

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I'm stuck with dial-up to answer the 1st thing on everyone's mind. Second, I'm not trying to download music, pics, videos and the like, I understand its dial-up. The new ad-aware is 72mb, thats over 4 hours to download, and my time-out for the ISP is 4 hours which means I get to start all over. My ISP does have a graphics accelerator but doesn't help on raw data. Are there any programs that actually help? Most seem to be hype and not many care as they haven't felt the pain of dial-up in a decade. At 4.5k/sec, I feel its not bad but not much else I can do to make it quicker as I've tried all the short cable, different modem routine. Any ideas or am I just screwed?
 
instead of using ad-aware download malwarebytes instead. It check in under 4MB in size. I think it's a much better tool than ad-aware. But when i had dial up ages ago, i used getright download manager
 
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There is No real Speed up of the dial.

The idea of what it called "'Accelerator"" is to cache some of the info., so if you visit the same sites and they do not change much it uses the cached files.

However that has nothing to do with download. The download is max of about 5Kb/sec. if the line and the ISP are in perfect condition.

You best bet is to look for file transfer application that can resume download at the spot of the cut off.
 
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I'd call the ISP and see if they can extend the time out past 4 hours, I'm sure this isn't the last time you'll need to download large files. In this age you're barely able to use the internet over dial-up, putting in restrictions like this make it that much less bearable to use dial-up. IIRC SP2 for windows xp took at least that long to download over dial-up. I can't imagine your ISP would want your computers un-patched and vulnerable to viruses and malware.
 
sonoma1993 said:
instead of using ad-aware download malwarebytes instead. It check in under 4MB in size. I think it's a much better tool than ad-aware. But when i had dial up ages ago, i used getright download manager
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I agree. Malwarebytes is a much better adware removal program than Ad-Aware. Ad-Aware used to be one of the best, but not any more.
 
I used a download manager when I was on dialup (was only about 3 years ago that we were finally able to make the switch to broadband), because there's nothing more frustrating than waiting hours for something to download, only to get disconnected or something at 98%. Check out Free Download Manager, it's free (as the name implies) and has a ton of options and features.
 
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