NetZero HiSpeed - is it worth it?

[GizmoFreak]

As my circumstances dictate, I need to open a dial-up account. NetZero seems to be the cheapest so that's what I'll go with. But I was wondering if it was worth it to pay the few extra bucks a month for HiSpeed. I understand some accelerated dial-up services degrade image quality to achieve higher speeds. Is this true with NetZero? Is there any way to view the intended image quality?

 

[redly]

I found the degraded image quality worse than the slightly lower speeds at full quality

my advice: pass

 

[The Stigenator]

edit - never mind.

 

[GizmoFreak]

Originally posted by: redly
I found the degraded image quality worse than the slightly lower speeds at full quality

my advice: pass

so the speed bump isn't even that noticeable?

 

[funboy6942]

Friend of mine has netzero hs and it does turn the images down quite a bit. I would do cable if you can its only $5 more and some cases you can get that price for 4-6 months. Once its over call and tell them your going to cancle and they will extend it for you fgurther. Just keep doing that ad they will keep you at the $19 price forever 🙂

 

[Drakkon]

if u want the highspeed get the $8 access4lesws package, same thing just cheaper.
I noticed an improvement on some pages but most end up looking like crap (due to image quality being reduced).
PArents got the netzero hgihspeed and it was the same thing...nothing special...canceled it within a month cause its not worth $5

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: redly
I found the degraded image quality worse than the slightly lower speeds at full quality

my advice: pass

Agreed. My local ISP has something similar to HiSpeed. The image quality sucks, and the speed improvement is not really noticable. I don't think you get any speed improvement on transferred files.

 

[Modeps]

And here I though that their hi-speed service was simply them zipping the pages prior to serving to you. It seems like downgrading image quality would take too much processing power.

 

[OulOat]

Originally posted by: Modeps
And here I though that their hi-speed service was simply them zipping the pages prior to serving to you. It seems like downgrading image quality would take too much processing power.

Creating a completely new browser to support zipped pages would be a lot more work.

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: OulOat

Originally posted by: Modeps
And here I though that their hi-speed service was simply them zipping the pages prior to serving to you. It seems like downgrading image quality would take too much processing power.

Creating a completely new browser to support zipped pages would be a lot more work.

😕

<?php
ob_start( 'ob_gzhandler' );
?>

whew... that was tough.

 

[frankie38]

no, not worth it! why not dsl?

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: Modeps

Originally posted by: OulOat

Originally posted by: Modeps
And here I though that their hi-speed service was simply them zipping the pages prior to serving to you. It seems like downgrading image quality would take too much processing power.

Creating a completely new browser to support zipped pages would be a lot more work.

😕

<?php
ob_start( 'ob_gzhandler' );
?>

whew... that was tough.

Compressing images creates overhead and unzipping them won't? 😕

 

I agree, for $5 more, just get broadband.

 

[OulOat]

Originally posted by: Modeps

Originally posted by: OulOat

Originally posted by: Modeps
And here I though that their hi-speed service was simply them zipping the pages prior to serving to you. It seems like downgrading image quality would take too much processing power.

Creating a completely new browser to support zipped pages would be a lot more work.

😕

<?php
ob_start( 'ob_gzhandler' );
?>

whew... that was tough.

touche. That would work, but the only things that would be compressed would be just the text, which is pretty pointless since web images (jpg and gif) takes up the most space and are already compressed.

 

[GizmoFreak]

It's not the money, I just can't get broadband right now