onspeed.com

pablo21

Has anyone used www.onspeed.com to speed up their dial up? Does it work? What are the limitations? Basically is it worth the dollars.
All info appreciated......

Cheers

Laguna

All onspeed does is act as a proxy server esque service that takes images on webpages you are viewing and compresses them so your browsing is *marginally* increased. No it is most definitely not worth it, all it does is compress images and reduce their quality, it won't turn a 56k line into a 512k one, it'll still take as long to download things, your pings on online games will still be huge, in a word it's a con!

Lush

However...

If all you have is a standard 56K modem, running at 33K and you're not bothered about high res images then it might be worth a go. It's not a con per say, but does claim to 'speed' up your Internet connection, which it doesn't. Your web requests are forwarded onto the onspeed servers which compress the page content before sending it onto your browser. It can't compress files that are already compressed like zip files, exe's etc... but will compress images and text. I basically speeds up the loading of web pages by compression, making the initial web page smaller in size to transport to your browser, thus making it appear that your connection is quicker. I dunno, if i had a regular eircom crappy connection I'd give it a lash.:cool:

axer

would the fact that you are using a proxy server and the fact that it will have to change the images to a lower quality be an overhead for your connection speed? but maybe that would be minimal extra lag.

shayser

It was tried here in our office and it definitely does NOT do what it says on the tin...