[Hidden-tech] dial up accelerator?

[johnwaynecote at gmail.com]

Indeed the web is no longer very dialup friendly, but nothing says you cant use multiple browsers to make the best of the situation or use a modern browser with plugins or its ADA features such as Firefox has.

Im sure she is well aware dialup is not ideal for her friend, but right now that is what they have. 





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Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

>At Wed, 03 Apr 2013 23:31:25 -0400 "johnwaynecote at gmail.com" <johnwaynecote at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 
>> 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.
>
>Unfortunately, lots of web sites *require* JavaScript, so lynx is of
>minimual use...  *Some* websites cannot be used at all with a dial up
>connection -- they don't work with Lynx and are too bandwidth hungry.
>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my LG phone
>> 
>> Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >   ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
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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.
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> 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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