[ToEpcfreak]

A quick question for the knowledgeable, and wise, is there such thing as a dial-up connection accelerator program?? And yes, ive used modem strings, disabling V90, but is there any, thing, else? DIAL UP, NEEDS TO BE INIHILATED

[Da Lucky 1]

if your downloading files, try DAP

[SoulAssassin]

Of course there is - broadband

[Canadian_man001]

where he lives... the only broadband costs 160$/month. DAP i allready reccommended to him:P

[mistawiskas]

If I had to go back to 56K, I think I'd just about have to give up the interweb. I feel for you man.

[hans5849]

Originally Posted by mistawiskas

If I had to go back to 56K, I think I'd just about have to give up the interweb. I feel for you man.

I just got broadband in July and im with him, you can't download good kinky porn with 56k

[Cr@cKpiPe tE@sEr noOb!]

my gf has 56k. i never use the internet at her house. u just cant go from dsl to 56k w/o going bonkers.

[Miller]

wow people still use dialup

[ivwshane]

All the web accelerators out there do, is just cache websites on their servers.

Since you are connected to them and they are the first stop your modem makes having the data already on their servers means slightly faster access for you.

However, it really only works on popular or previously visited websites. So if you go to some website that no one on your isp has gone you wouldn't access it any faster than someone who isn't using a web accelerator.

[Lazaredz]

Originally Posted by ivwshane

All the web accelerators out there do, is just cache websites on their servers.

Since you are connected to them and they are the first stop your modem makes having the data already on their servers means slightly faster access for you.

However, it really only works on popular or previously visited websites. So if you go to some website that no one on your isp has gone you wouldn't access it any faster than someone who isn't using a web accelerator.

Thats about it. Only other thing I can think of is it get a personalized web accellerator. One where you can list what sites (and in what order) you want them downloaded in the background. Helps for surfing and reading your tech sites, but not in gaming.

[MaesterB]

Didn't Diamond, awhile back, have some sort of slingshot technology, where you could buy two 56K Diamond modems, and then you would have to get two seperate phone lines, and two seperate accounts, that would get those connections together, and double your bandwidth?

That's how 1337 dial-up users DO IT!

[Lazaredz]

Originally Posted by MaesterB

slingshot technology

Think it was shotgun, not slingshot though.

[Miller]

Originally Posted by MaesterB

Didn't Diamond, awhile back, have some sort of slingshot technology, where you could buy two 56K Diamond modems, and then you would have to get two seperate phone lines, and two seperate accounts, that would get those connections together, and double your bandwidth?

That's how 1337 dial-up users DO IT!

i remember that

[Drakkon]

Originally Posted by ivwshane

All the web accelerators out there do, is just cache websites on their servers.

Since you are connected to them and they are the first stop your modem makes having the data already on their servers means slightly faster access for you.

However, it really only works on popular or previously visited websites. So if you go to some website that no one on your isp has gone you wouldn't access it any faster than someone who isn't using a web accelerator.

I have a webcellerator service and frankly thats not how it works at all (netzero and earthlink have tried). What they did was use their servers as a PROXY which degrades image quality (turns 100K jpgs into 1K) and cuts out page features like ads, flah, sound, etc. Thus since what your mostly transfering is plain text whcih transferes much faster than binary data nad thus everything "apears" to run faster. They might cache popular sites but it sure never seemed like it. Actual download times for zip files and things still were just as slow.

[Brofar]

Unfortunetly no you cant go past 56k rate because of the limitations of analog telephone line. The matter of fact is that 56k speeds are achieved by using compression so files that are already compressed (MP3s, ZIPs etc) will download *slower* then not-compressed files.

[msgwtco]

Originally Posted by MaesterB

Didn't Diamond, awhile back, have some sort of slingshot technology, where you could buy two 56K Diamond modems, and then you would have to get two seperate phone lines, and two seperate accounts, that would get those connections together, and double your bandwidth?

That's how 1337 dial-up users DO IT!

My dad had a setup like that except with US Robotics Modems. He used a software called midpoint gateway, which was a proxy server that dialed and split the connections.

This was back around 1997, before DSL and cable were availible for a cheap price.

[Scooby]

isdn?

[Hubcap]

NET ZERO HI SPEED 3G

# Surfing so fast, you won't believe it's not broadband
NetZero HiSpeed is now faster than ever. In fact, with 3G technology NetZero HiSpeed is the fastest surfing you can get without paying the high price for a broadband connection.

from there website looks like you wont eve need broadband with 3G......

would love to see how they can even claim this. Maybe compared to the slowest broadband speed possible.

[XEN]

I had that dual-modem thing setup back in the day, I called it the poor man's DSL, no extra sofware needed, windows does it for you.

[hans5849]

wait, what would disabling v90 do

[ivwshane]

Originally Posted by Drakkon

I have a webcellerator service and frankly thats not how it works at all (netzero and earthlink have tried). What they did was use their servers as a PROXY which degrades image quality (turns 100K jpgs into 1K) and cuts out page features like ads, flah, sound, etc. Thus since what your mostly transfering is plain text whcih transferes much faster than binary data nad thus everything "apears" to run faster. They might cache popular sites but it sure never seemed like it. Actual download times for zip files and things still were just as slow.

I'm basing my information on this:

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

and this:

http://www.connectto.net/Dial-Up-Web-Accelerator.html

Obviously there are alot of techiniques and caching as well as compression are both things used to speed up surfing.

[XEN]

Originally Posted by hans5849

wait, what would disabling v90 do

Nothing that can be classified as "improving performance".