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Hey,
Just one comment :
Unless you get 56K analog, 128K digital, broadband (DSL or Cable) , T1 or even T3. Your speed will be as slow as the slowest link that you pass and which infrastructure at the other side. For.Ex. If you ddl from a major company, let's say M$, you will get a nice speed, while if you're ddl from someones homeserver you're due at his upload-speed.
Even if you get your modem tweaked or cracked, there will always be the other side, and this is your ISP which controls and can set your ddl and upl. All those accelerator-progs are just a big scam !
Greetz,
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I have tried many things to boost up my internet connection (when I still was on dial-up).
I wouldn't waste my time on such programs as Tweak DUN which modify some registry settings for larger tcp-packets or whatever, they only give you a very minor advantage, if any. I have also tried download accelerators such as GetRight and FlashGet but they tend to cause more frustration than real benefit as the downloaded files get corrupted much easier. The only (clearly working) and best (of what I know) way to accelerate your connection, and this works with broadband connections too, is not to download any advertisements. For this purpose, before I was introduced to Proxomitron, I used WebWasher. On old, very slow computers these may not help as much as they actually are programs that are always running, so they eat system resources just like any other program. Any new PC should have no trouble at all with one extra process.
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True that, ZeroOne, Proxomitron rocks.
Another thing, if you are using an older os(ie win95,98..) make sure you tweak the reg entires because they were conceived with dial up and not broad band access and that would be a problem. The os would not be exploiting the full advantage fo the broad band access.
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Many programs that claim to speed up download times work on the basis of managing the ammount of your bandwidth that is devoted to each idividual download or upload. Some even redistribute package sizes more uniformly to reduce the ammout of buffer data. How much this actually helps you though is widely varied. The ammount that it helps it also dependent on what your connection speed is to begin with. If you have 56k the inprovment may be so small that it is unnoticable, where if you have cable or dsl the improvement will be the same % improvement but it will be noticable becuase the ammount will be greater. Not sure if i explained that well but think of it like this: 10 + 1% = 10.1 1000 + 1% = 1010. same percentage difference but its alot more noticable with larger numbers.
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If you have a low connection via dial up, why dont you try Opera ?
Its a very fast browser (faster then any version of Internet Explorer or Netscape),
it has it own integradet download manager and it doesnt spy you.
It really helps me to spare a lot of online-time while waiting for sites finishing loading.
The only problem is that is have a little ad-screen, but you can remove this if you
pay some money to the programers, I dont know how much it is, I just paid, because
I love this browser ;-)
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heh just get DDR and broadband .. IC will own then :P
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quality post gentlemen
I would simply play around in the registry. When I had my dialup and downloaded these progs, they did nothing really. Usually make sure you dont have any progs open that consume bandwidth if its unneeded. Second I would think about cable or dsl, much faster.
