[Hidden-tech] dial up accelerator?

ussailis at shaysnet.com ussailis at shaysnet.com
Fri Apr 5 14:46:07 EDT 2013


The later versions of the browser "Opera" has a built-it accelrator called
"Turbo." When we had slower speed DSL here, that ocassionally ran as slow
as dial-up I used it on it's automatic mode. Worked just fine.

Opera is a browser from Finland. It is used by something near 3% of web
users. Been around since before "Explorer." I use versions 10 and 11, now &
plan to get to 12 soon. User control and security are it's strong points.


Jim Ussailis
 

Original Message:
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From: Don Lesser dlesser at ptraining.com
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 08:52:47 -0400
To: heller at deepsoft.com, swampdancer at comcast.net,
hidden-discuss at mm01.tnrnet.com
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] dial up accelerator?


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We used to have a piece of hardware, Webramp, that combined up to three
dialup connections on separate phone lines to give faster thruput, but that
was 20 years ago. Doubt they still make it, but you might try looking
around.

Don Lesser
Pioneer Training, Inc.
139B Damon Road, Ste 8
Northampton, MA 01060
(413) 387-1040
(413) 586-0545 (fax)
dlesser at ptraining.com
www.ptraining.com

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[mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of Robert
Heller
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 6:24 PM
To: Stacy Kontrabecki
Cc: hidden-discuss
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] dial up accelerator?

   ** 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.
> 

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