"Accelerator" dial up access?

This might not be the right forum so feel free to move it.

I'm contemplating spending the extra $4-5 a month for this. Anyone have any experience with it and can say whether or not it was worth it? Please advise.

I'm committed to dial up at home for varying reasons at this point in time so DSL or Cable is out. TIA.

 

56k is still 56k. It probably optimizes how you load pages, but I don't think its worth it at all.

Note: Make sure you use the low-bandwidth skin for the site if you need it to run faster.

 

Don't bother with accelerators. Their sole function is replicated by your browser's cache. Your connection is simply router through a proxy server which first checks to see if it has a cached version of the website you're requesting. If it does, it sends that version back to you. It's "quicker" because the connection never leaves your ISP unless it has to. The problem with this model is if you visit a website that's often updated (news, sports, etc), the proxy server will end up feeding the old version until it gets the new one.

 

That part I understand. They claim there is some compression going on but as said before 56k is what it is. I know where in IE to adjust that cache. It's not clear to me why the pages still don't load faster on their own. Seems like I can still visit the same sites that have repetitive code and graphics and it's still doggy. Even with IE7? That's why I thought their cache application might be better.

BTW. I have my graphics jacked in the BIOS to 128mb.

 

The file compression is only good on about 40% of the web pages you visit. Your CPU must do the decompression when it comes in. Any SSL web pages are not compressed.

I know of several person who tried it out. They discovered very quickly that there was NO gain in speed, for them.

My advice is NOT to waste your money on it.

 

I had dial up with accelerator and set it up to run with or w/o the accelerator. I found that web pages loaded faster w/o the accelerator. The one I had (copper.net) was a waste of money for me. At the time, however, I was running it on an older system so you may get better results than I did.

 

Dial up accelerators aren't that great. Basically all it does is make the image quality worse so it can load faster. If you can afford it, just go with sattalite DSL (that is, if you live far from civilization [haha], or just pay the extra $5 ~ 15 for cable)

 

Ok, well, good enough for me. I won't pursue it. Thanx everyone!

 

Well coming from a 56k user here, I have Juno with speedband and it slightly increase your load times. Before with standard 56k I was going at 3-4 kps now it is at a steady 5kps which means yea its not worth your money. It is slightly improve, but also which 56k modem are you using? Is it v92 or v90, because the v92 is better with the throughput...

 

I found that Onspeed works well as accelerator for 56k, the data fromt he webpage is sent to their server which sends a cached image back. It does send back updated pages for eg news sites.