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Ysoft_Entertainment · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:52 am Post subject: dial-up speed up

anyone here knows of a good program to speed up dial-ups?
I downloaded modem booster, but that thing sucks, I haven't seen any boosts.

if you know, please post, thank you.
by the way, I am using aol sort of ISP called wal-mart connect.
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Junair Wiare · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 11:06 am Post subject:

I've looked in vain for the same thing. Is your ISP AOL or is it something similar there-to? I have AOL, personally.
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RPGCreations · **E Pluribus Unum** Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 345

Hmm.. I wish I could remember that one.. it had a rocket for the logo. How dialup accelerators work is they cache pages, and check once in a while for a new page. So when you go to a site, it's actually pulling it off the harddrive.

How to "Speed Up" your connection without 3rd Party Programs

Internet Explorer

Go to Tools -> Internet Options. Click the General Tab.

Then click the Settings button, shown here.

Then click the radio button as shown here.

Also, tweak the cache size, as shown by the blue arrow. Personally, I suggest anything around 1GB.

Firefox

Go to Tools > Options. Click the tab shown below.

Now, Firefox doesn't have any page-version checking feature, so you'll just have to tweak the cache size. Firefox will start you off with a 50MB cache. As before, I recommend making this considerably larger.

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Shadowiii · **It's been real.** Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 2460

Fyre...are you serious? So they charge 5 extra bucks a month for a cacheing program?

(I knew about these programs all along...I had one when I had dialup. I didn't know that's all these "Speed Dial" or "Turbo Dialup" extra priced stuff is).

So technically it doesn't speed up downloads (of files) at all. That's...not...nice. Oookay...

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Heat · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 3:53 pm Post subject:

Read: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/high-speed.htm
nuff said, it's all a scam.
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Shadowiii · **It's been real.** Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 2460

BASTARDS!
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Junair Wiare · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 4:37 pm Post subject:

8! Not kidding!
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djfenix · Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 359

Well... it isn't surprising at all. The only people who can change the speed of your internet is your ISP. The speed isn't determined by programs or any crap that the connection uses; it's the hardware.

Ysoft_Entertainment · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 7:04 pm Post subject:

I heard there was some kind of device that actually magnifies the signals that go to the modem from the phone lines, anyone knows what its called?
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Heat · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 7:24 pm Post subject:

It's called a DSL modem.
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JSH357 · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 1705

It's called a sledgehammer.

... Why is this in the OHR Forum? Just wondering.

RPGCreations · **E Pluribus Unum** Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 345

TMC · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:51 pm Post subject:

Actually, IE by default caches files, and rechecks everytime you view the page.
And the data sent through a dialup is normally compressed before sending through, at least on my machine. I notice the data compression ratio from my ISP is normally much lower, and sometimes 0% though.
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Flamer · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 3:03 am Post subject:

no program will EVER change your dail up speed...
unless you change something hardware wise as well.

The limitation with dialup is the...telephone, ironically enough.
processor speed plays a very small part in the speed, where it would translate data into tones(or pulses, depending on country) to go into the phoneline, then it needs to retranslated back.

the only way you can increase speed is by...kicking your ISP in the ass and get a faster connection Raspberry!

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