[Hidden-tech] dial up accelerator?

[johnwaynecote at gmail.com]

Netzero does still exist.

www.netzero.net/dialup

The 14.95 package uses all the tricks available for dialup. The tricks only apply to html,text and images so normal surfing. Downloads are still 56k or less.

 personally if I was on dialup I would just switch to a text browser 

Such as lynx with image support.



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Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

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>At Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:07:24 -0400 Stacy Kontrabecki <swampdancer at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>    ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>>    ** If you did, we all thank you.
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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.
>
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
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