Ever used proxyconn?

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Usually I dont click these little promo's but I read this one linked from yahoo and wondered if anyone here has tried it?

Is it realistic or not to get that much better speed from dial up. I suppose it wouldnt help download speeds as much as just surfing.

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To anyone who really gives a crap I did some research........

The truth about Proxyconn


Proxyconn claims to remove banners and kill pop-up. That's easy to notice and it works. However, there are hundreds of freeware alternatives that work just as well. So while that's nice, it's not worth the money.


The locally hosted proxy is true. HTTP requests are routed to IP address 127.0.0.1, which is your own PC. What we're supposed to believe happens after this is hard for an average user to prove or disprove. In this case, the local proxy server caches more webpages than Internet Explorer would normally. If the page isn't cached, the proxy server requests it from Proxyconn's own servers. HTTP data is compressed and returned to the local proxy server that decompressed that data and serves that to your Web browser.


What's wrong with this picture?


That all seems possible. But there are a few flaws. First, much Web content is already compressed, including broadband favorites like image, audio, and video file formats such as JPEG, MPEG, and MP3. So any attempt to recompress will have little value. Text can be compressed, but is quite small to begin with -- and remember normal HTML is just a text file with special characters. Proxyconn's "conventional wisdom" that a proxy server system is faster for cached data may also work against it. Users may get uncached data at slower speeds because there's a double request involved.


So, is Proxyconn service worth $9 per month? No. The nominal speed increases don't live up the advertising, and the additional money would be better spent on a true DSL connection. In the three days since I talked to the developer, Proxyconn's website has changed the language on the site from "DSL speed" to "near broadband speed." So while it's harder to dispute Proxyconn's claims, it's not hard to figure out 181 Kbps is only 48 percent of my 384 Kbps DSL connection.