[Hidden-tech] dial up accelerator?

[Sarah Meikle]

I had the same problem living in Conway a while ago... Ended up having to
rent office space in Shelburne.  Anyhow, it won't work if you are dealing w
lots of large files, but I found that I got pretty decent speed when
tethering to my iPhone... Gotta watch how much data ur using, but it's
definitely a lot faster than 33kbs.

Good luck!  I ended up moving as a result.

Sarah

On Saturday, April 6, 2013, Robert Heller wrote:

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> At Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:45:16 -0400 Stacy Kontrabecki <
> swampdancer at comcast.net <javascript:;>> wrote:
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> >    ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's
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> > My friend from Heath is a self-professed cheapskate, a senior with lots
> > of time on his hands (will spend 8 hours downloading a file instead of
> > going to a wifi hotspot to download it) and running and old-ish
> > computer. He will never move to satellite - the only option out there. I
> > can change none of these things, but I might be able to influence what
> > additional cash he spends on software/accelerators and recommend a
> > browser for him, since he asked me.
>
> You friend is not so much a 'cheapskate', but is encountering a bit of
> 'hard reality' WRT internet access in the USA.  Susan Crawford in an
> interview with Bill Moyers covers exactly this issue:
>
> Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly, and Unfair<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xI847vQTto>
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> In this interview she points out that Americans are paying way too much
> for inferior services.  Many Americans cannot afford what passes for
> 'broadband', assuming that it is even available.  Consider this: in
> Hong Kong, one can get a 500megabit connection for like $30/month. What
> is Comcast or Time-Warner offering? 5-10megabit?  Of course Comcast or
> Time-Warner are only available in 'selected areas'...  And there is no
> way you are ever going to get much more than 10megabits over a satelite
> or celluar connection, and that is going to cost close to $100/month,
> assuming it is even available.  Satelite and celluar connections can be
> iffy in the 'hill towns': between the trees and the mountains, the
> signal could be blocked.  *I* live in Wendell and where *I* live
> dial-up is the *only* option (and because of Verizon's cruddy wires, I am
> now down to 33Kbs).  There is NO celluar signal where I live and there
> are trees in the way of the satelite. I'm not on dial up because I am
> any sort of cheapskate, but simply because that is really my *only*
> option.  I do travel to WiFi hot spots (like the local library or the
> Hampshire Mall's food court) to download software updates.
>
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> >
> > I know. I know.
> >
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> > On 4/4/13 4:26 PM, jeclairm at gmail.com <javascript:;> wrote:
> > > This might not be the most helpful answer, but has your friend
> > > considered finding an alternate method to use the internet? If they
> > > can't do some kind of dedicated connection for whatever reason (cable,
> > > DSL, fiber), there are plenty of wireless providers that offer 3G and
> > > 4G dataplans that are reasonably cheap. And, there is always satellite
> > > internet. Any of these methods would completely remove the issue of
> > > the slow browsing speed that dial up has. Dialup and modems aren't
> > > really used very much at all (at least in the USA) for internet access
> > > and browsing the web anymore. So, there aren't many resources out
> > > there for browsing the web for dialup users anymore.
> > >
> > > -Ed C
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Stacy Kontrabecki
> > > <swampdancer at comcast.net <javascript:;> <mailto:
> swampdancer at comcast.net <javascript:;>>> wrote:
> > >
> > >        ** 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.
> > >
> > >     Thanks.
> > >
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> > >     Stacy Kontrabecki, MBA
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