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Dial up services 5X faster

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HI All

You always hear about these dial up companys and their services that are 5times faster than regular services. Do any of u guys know exactly what these services do to make their dial up times faster? Do they eliminate the graphics to do this?

thanks
 
Originally posted by: Thurgo0dy
DSL and cable prices are so low now, why stick with dial up? Yahoo charges $19.95 a mother for their DSL. What gives?
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DSL and cable aren't offered or available in all areas.
 
Originally posted by: Rhin0
Originally posted by: Thurgo0dy
DSL and cable prices are so low now, why stick with dial up? Yahoo charges $19.95 a mother for their DSL. What gives?
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DSL and cable aren't offered or available in all areas.
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Nor are they always going down. Where I am, cable Internet prices were $30 a month a year ago, so long as you had basic service, which was $40. Now, the latest bill was over $80 - $35 for Internet, and at least $45 for basic cable. Don't you just love local monopolies.

But, on the other hand, it is still nice to have two-way cable here, and a bit surprising. There's probably only a hundred houses in this development, and not many in the surrounding area - pretty rural out here.
At least the Internet doesn't go out every time it rains anymore. I used to do that a year ago. I guess the extra $5 is to pay for waterproofing. 😉
 
5x faster has thier servers compress text and images, it looks like cr@p but you get to browse alot faster.
 
it's noticeably faster on pages with lots graphics. but the graphics do look noticeable like crap. not worth it if you can get cheap DSL, too bad yahoo/sbc dsl is not available in my area. My bro-in-law just ordered fiber-optic broadband at his new house. it was incredibly fast, download a file at over 1MB/S (megabyte not megabit). it was like an 8 meg connection i think.
 
Originally posted by: LED
Just to add to the above posts, it is possible to set the compressed Graphics to light, Med, Heavy...I do not have DSL nor Cable in the Country here so there isn't much options:

Single Line Dialup X5 ACELLERATOR... Graphics Lightly compressed

Modems Strapped (2lines with 2 Modems together) X5 ACELLERATOR... Graphics lightly Compressed

Modems Strapped (2lines with 2 Modems together) X5 ACCELERATOR...Graphics Heavily Compressed
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Interesting, thanks for the pics LED. Do they compress all images like jpg, gif or do they compress certain ones?

 
Interesting, thanks for the pics LED. Do they compress all images like jpg, gif or do they compress certain ones?
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All of em AFAIK including bmp's and from what I understand the best deal going is with Netscape which includes it with their Service for $9.95 per month although I haven't tried it.
 
You don't get much for your $10. with Netscape. Besides which they are part of AOL with which I'll have nothing to do. For $10 a month, Intergate.com gives you unlimited access, 100MB of drive space for a personal web site and 100 email boxes. For $3. more a month, you can get the web accelerator too.

.bh.
 
Hi, Some of these guys state, in the small print, that the new service does not speed up downloads. Since download time is much greater than upload I hardly think it's worth it. Jim
 
they dont compress anything. all they do is cache ur previously viewed sites like another member mentioned. so that when u revisit them they load faster. but when u go to a random site..ur still at 56k if that
 
they dont compress anything.
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Sure they do and it make Browsing on dial-up livable....


>The Proxyconn Internet Accelerator utilizes the client-server approach to achieve up to 6x acceleration ratios for web content and email. Proxyconn Acceleration Server compresses web pages, images, animations, documents and HTTP headers, applying a vast array of mostly proprietary compression algorithms. Each data type is compressed using the compression scheme, optimal for this data type. For example, HTML pages can be compressed to less than 2% of the original size. This is 50:1 compression ratio. Already compressed JPEG and GIF images can be further compressed by up to 12x !

Caching on both the client and the server prevents unnecessary re-transmissions, while ensuring that only fresh and correct data is delivered to the end user.


Proxyconn
 
Originally posted by: LED
they dont compress anything.
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Sure they do and it make Browsing on dial-up livable....


>The Proxyconn Internet Accelerator utilizes the client-server approach to achieve up to 6x acceleration ratios for web content and email. Proxyconn Acceleration Server compresses web pages, images, animations, documents and HTTP headers, applying a vast array of mostly proprietary compression algorithms. Each data type is compressed using the compression scheme, optimal for this data type. For example, HTML pages can be compressed to less than 2% of the original size. This is 50:1 compression ratio. Already compressed JPEG and GIF images can be further compressed by up to 12x !

Caching on both the client and the server prevents unnecessary re-transmissions, while ensuring that only fresh and correct data is delivered to the end user.


Proxyconn
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Pretty neat. If it's your only option then I'd say go for it. Still no substitute for broadband though.
 
I work for an ISP, we have an accelerator, for people who cant get on our DSL lines they love it. But every now and again we get someone who doesnt understand that they will not be downloading things at dsl speeds, IE movies. Had one person waiting over 10 hours before they called about thier movie link download, it was kinda funny
 
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