Anyone tried onspeed.com ?

speeds up your connection 10x L25 a year

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I tried the free demo a few months back. I thought it was a load of rubbish
but some people may like it. All it seemed to do is lower the graphic
quality on the screen to download the page faster. The pages looked a mess
and it does not speed up downloads only pages.

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>> speeds up your connection 10x L25 a year
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>> _____ <(E-Mail Removed)> Sat, 07 Aug 2004 15:16:27 +0100
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>I tried the free demo a few months back. I thought it was a load of rubbish
>but some people may like it. All it seemed to do is lower the graphic
>quality on the screen to download the page faster. The pages looked a mess
>and it does not speed up downloads only pages.
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Compression of images.. which the automatic reduction in quality and the
use of a proxy server is the basis of OnSpeed.
You can get faster browsing by:
1. using a better browser than Iexplorer (wonder why Onspeed is only
available for use with Iexplorer!!!)
2. switching off image display

Obviously if you only use sites where the webmaster does not think
everyone had broadband and so partly compresses his graphics/images and
codes his pages in accordance with the official www3 rules and NOT
Microshite's will speed things up!!.

The use of a proxy server, is fine if you access a page already accessed
by someone else. The proxy then serves you the page from it's "store"...
rather like a browser does if you access the page twice (assuming you
have not told the browser to always check for new page). However, this
means you may well get an outdated page... not good for real time
requirements.
If you happen to be the first to request a page, then a proxy simply
adds one more hop in the loop.
You request the page from the proxy, the proxy requests, then receives
the page from the site, then sends it to you.

No problem when Onspeed only have a few customers, just imagine a few
hundred thousand or so customers all requesting different pages at the
same time, none of which happen to be in the Onspeed "store"!

In any event, many isps already use a "transparent" proxy system, so
Onspeed would not be of any advantage.

Downloads can be speeded up by using a Manager such as Download
Accelerator Plus, FlashGet or similar.
These work by "splitting" the download file into sections and
automatically setting up multiple connections to the server, thus
ensuring that all of your available bandwidth at any one time is used.


Wally Hayward

I had high hopes for using onspeed with my slow satphone. It wasn't dramatic
enough to make me forget the sat cost per minute, so I let it go


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>> speeds up your connection 10x L25 a year
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>> _____ <(E-Mail Removed)> Sat, 07 Aug 2004 15:16:27 +0100
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> I tried the free demo a few months back. I thought it was a load of
> rubbish
> but some people may like it. All it seemed to do is lower the graphic
> quality on the screen to download the page faster. The pages looked a mess
> and it does not speed up downloads only pages.
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