[Hidden-tech] dial up accelerator?

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:07:24 -0400 Stacy Kontrabecki <swampdancer at comcast.net> wrote:

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> A friend of mine has dial-up internet. He's heard there are internet 
> speed accelerators that quicken his online experience by compressing 
> data and rendering images, etc in lower res. I've never heard of this, 
> but told him I'd ask you what was the best one.

AOL and Netzero used (and others?) to have these features as part of
their dial-up service, but I don't know if either still even provide
dial-up access anymore.  I don't believe that there ever existed
anything like a standalone dial-up 'compresser' -- it was always
through a dialup provider that used a propriatory connection protocol
(either instead of ppp or over top of ppp) and/or a customized web
browser (or some combination of the two). I don't know if Netzero even
still exists and I don't know if AOL still provides dial-up service
anymore -- many of the old national dial-up providers have moved over
to providing third-party services over DSL or Cable, etc. and have
tossed their dial-up hardware (or whatever) out.

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