Internet accelerators?

#1 Ace

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Posted 11 November 2002 - 11:38 PM

Does anyone know a good and actually working internet accelerator for a 56k modem. Even though I get an average of 4kbp-6kbps it still kinda sucks. Anyone know a good one?

#2 tweaked

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Posted 11 November 2002 - 11:54 PM

no.

no such thing really.

best thing is something to auto resume downloads...

everything/anyhting else is just cr@p.

#3 Immortal

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Posted 11 November 2002 - 11:55 PM

I agree, these so called accelerators do nothing really.
They MAY speed up browsing, but for donwloads nothing, cause its the bandwidth that matters.

#4 adamvjackson

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Posted 12 November 2002 - 12:36 AM

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Even though I get an average of 4kbp-6kbps it still kinda sucks.

For 56kbps, that's actually quite good, given relative quality of phone lines.

#5 Four and Twenty

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Posted 12 November 2002 - 02:03 AM

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best thing is something to auto resume downloads

windows.net does that natively

#6 adamvjackson

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Posted 12 November 2002 - 02:25 AM

Honestly though, not many people legitimately have access to .NET yet... unless they're either beta testing it or have signed up for the CPP.

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Posted 12 November 2002 - 04:43 AM

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Honestly though, not many people legitimately have access to .NET yet... unless they're either beta testing it or have signed up for the CPP.

yea i know just a random thought

he isn't lookin for a dl resume anyway he just wants the download to go faster. I feel realy spoiled when i think about how i get pissed off when i am getting less than 100k

#8 adamvjackson

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Posted 12 November 2002 - 06:04 AM

I agree, anything less that 100-120KB/Sec and I feel 'cheated'..
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Posted 12 November 2002 - 07:27 AM

Yeah I just moved to my new actual office from my home office, cable to DSL and I feel like my d:ck shrank 3 inches. I am already in the process of convincing my partner and CEO to up the DSL to anything higher than 640Kbps. I went from downloads at an average of 300K to downloads at 60K!!! I do realize there are 10 other computers on the connection as well. I will have to do some bandwidth limiting here now that I have a full fledged IT room, instead of being the guy that comes in (from home) when things go wrong or need updating.