Speed up internet access??

OK. I was looking through some programs when some caught my eye. They were claiming to speed up internet access. I was wondering if they actually can, and if so, which ones have the better increase. And also, how would one of these programs work?

There are some programs that exist which simply change some registry settings (change the Windows TCP/IP Windows Size, MTU Settings, etc.). Others simply adjust how your computer interprets the data received from a web site. In my experience, none of them work. I've played around with a few (Internet Accelerator, Connection Tweaks in CustomizeXP, etc.), and have seen little to no results. If you're using a dial-up connection, the best way to speed it up is to go broadband, or get one of those dual-line modems (you connect to the Internet via two phone lines and the bandwidth gets split across them, giving you a theoretical throughput of 128 kpbs). If you want to give them a try, try some of the free ones, but don't bother spending money on one...

AJ

While i agree with avdven; there are some programs which can help you as they did helped me when i had dial up. These are the ones that speed up file transferences between your PC and any other host in the net... For example Download accelerator 5.0... yet; i would use stardownloader instead because it has no spywares and no advertices like DA5.0 ...
you can download star Downloader form: http://www.stardownloader.com
Well how do this work; for a complete reference on how the program works i would recommend you to read the FAQ (and the help files); but what the basically do is to fraction your download (generally into four packets); and download the four packets from different locations; thus gaining a better bandwith with every host... (assuming than more than one person is downloading the file from the site) .... Besides they have a resume option in case you'd like to download a large file in different moments...
So to sum up; i would advice you to download star downloader or any similar prog; yet to pay no attention to progs like Internet Accelerator; or any prog mentioned by avdven...
Hope this reply is usefull
ampm

There are some that claim this. They clear up memory leakage. One such program is RamBooster. It it pretty much a waste of space to me.

I tried internet accelerator today on dial-up, tried the three settings and actually lost speed until I uninstalled the program. There are ways that allow you to use the speed you have to full advantage and starloader was mentioned but I use DLExpert, free and small from www.majorgeeks.com. You can cache web pages which cuts down on the loading times but I look for things that load quickly and skip a lot of the slower sites, except this one. If you do find a way that works let me know!

most of the ones you see advertised are nothing more than spyware like alexa. before you download one check it out at a site like this:

http://www.cexx.org/adware.htm

Speeding up Dial up Internet Access. Well, for starters your only going to get 56.7k at top speed. Even the best, newest and most updated phone lines will only be able to top out around 56k. Now, usually this is not the case. Usually our phone lines are old, and we have to make the best out of our modem. Now, if you want a cheap trick, try setting your maximum modem speed to 115200 then giving your modem the init string AT&FX. That will cause DUN to display the max modem speed at ever connection. However, your speed will remain the same.

If you really want to do something about it, Clean up the Harddrive. Clean the registry. Get it all nice and defragged. Now your computer is running smoothly, lets see about that internet connection. First, the modem you get will greatly have a bearing on the quality of connection.
You get a 12 dollar Lucent Win Modem or an HCF, your going to get a bad connection. Spring for the External US Robotics 56k Sportster. Thats going to be the most compatible and reliable modem, in my experience.

Now, if you go to www.modemhelp.net you will be able to find a slew of modem drivers, modem init strings ect.. These programs your downloading, dont do much different than the tech you would call at your ISP's Tech Support Center. Do it yourself. Forget the programs, they will only infest your computer with unwanted Ads. Any questoins about this, i can help if you PM.

Yeah, I'm with Jxrry59 on this one.... I tried download accelorator plus and I found that it didn't improve my download speed at all

My advice: Don't be lured in by their promises of faster internet... Just go get cable or T3 ;)

MTUSpeed 'helps' with Modem download speed. Default network MTU is 1500, and some routers only pass 576 (older ones - if I am not mistaken) MTUSpeed adjusts the modem MTU to 576, (thereby saving 924 non-data bytes) My old 56 modem increased from 2.6 to 4.5 kbytes . DR TCP may help also. (Ram boosters, memory enhancers, download doublers never seem to work) More physical memory works better.

Yep, I agree with *Dr Toker*. The first thing you have to do is clear up your system. In my own experience just doing this would help a lot. Never the less you could check this site
And a other thing is, wich distro. Just this weekend switch to Linux Mandrake 9.0 . Before this I used MS XP. I have to say that I noticed an increase of speed. So you could try switching or a dual boot on your box to see the difference (or not)

Good luck :p

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,

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.

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.

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.

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 ;-)

heh just get DDR and broadband .. IC will own then :P

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.