[Hidden-tech] dial up accelerator?

Jan Werner jwerner at jwdp.com
Fri Apr 5 13:22:41 EDT 2013


The Opera web browser has a turbo mode that passes all page requests 
through their servers which compress the contents to transmit to the 
browser. The compressed pages are decompressed on the fly by the browser 
and the whole process is completely transparent to the user.

This is not going to be a panacea, for reasons others have mentioned, 
but it might help a little occasionally and it doesn't cost anything.

http://www.opera.com/turbo for some superficial marketing babble.

Jan Werner
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johnwaynecote at gmail.com wrote:
> ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's
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>
> 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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>
>
> Sent from my LG phone
>
> 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. ** If you did, we all thank you.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> At Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:07:24 -0400 Stacy Kontrabecki
>>>> <swampdancer at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ** 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.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- Robert Heller             -- 978-544-6933 /
>>>> heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software        --
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>> -- Robert Heller             -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com
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