Google Web Accelerator - has anyone tried it?

[geckojohn]

looks like it's new....


LINK 4 lazy

 

[HamburgerBoy]

It's been around for months.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
It's been around for months.

yeah...iirc ir didn't really do much for folks

 

[Finality]

Anyone care to comment on how good it is though?

 

[KoolDrew]

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[episodic]

There were alot of reports it messed up sites with non-static content. It is a caching proxy server.

 

[ShadowBlade]

all dial up accelerators do is run all incoming images through a proxy, decrease the quality to make them and the page size smaller

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: ShadowBlade
all dial up accelerators do is run all incoming images through a proxy, decrease the quality to make them and the page size smaller

By "decrease the quality," they mean to hyper-compress JPEGs so that they look like $@#&. I could see the point of a "web accelerator" if you're stuck on 14.4, but other than that, they're pretty much worthless IMHO.

 

[episodic]

Originally posted by: ShadowBlade
all dial up accelerators do is run all incoming images through a proxy, decrease the quality to make them and the page size smaller

Actually google does not taught this as a dial up accelerator. They taught it as a broadband accelerator. You see no loss in pages. I believe the way it works is they simple refer their cached copies of pages through ultra-fast google servers which supposedly work better than the intraweb.

http://webaccelerator.google.com/support.html

 

[0roo0roo]

hmm..reviews?

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
hmm..reviews?

It's prtty much worthless for broadband connections. That is all you need to know.

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: KoolDrew

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
hmm..reviews?

It's prtty much worthless for anyone. That is all you need to know.

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