What's with this 5x dialup stuff?


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im stuck on 128k isdn , the cheapest way possible for 24/7 unrestricted acess, which is 2 64k aol accounts teamed together with midpoint.

it sucks, but it beats 56k, just, but i would like to apply this compression technology to it, anything to boost browsing speeds.

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Well being an earthlink subscriber, I must say that the accelerator does work, there is a noticeable difference, and the settings are adjustable, even if you clear your cache locally, the speed is still there. I am in a kind of rural area and broadband prices are still very high, so it's just cost prohibitive. I am glad that dial up customers are getting more options because not everyone wants or can afford a faster connection. And there is a cool tweak with it, you can set everything to go out on the accelerated port and everything gets sped up just a little, its not supposed to be possible, but anything is possible...... :laugh:

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Its not a 56 kilobyte modem, its 56 kiloBITS.  Makes a bit of difference there.

There are 8 bits to a byte, so

56 kilobits/sec / 8 bits = 7 kilobytes per second.

yeah... we know :huh: what's your point? i haven't seen dial-up get faster than 5kbytes / sec :p besides, staind just posted they're using a proprietary compression algorithm :rolleyes:

Gameguy I would expect you to be aware of this fact, however the poster I quoted - XT. - said 'not even its namesake,' implying that he thought a 56k modem should download 56 kilobytes a second. I was clarifying this for him, as he seemed unaware of the the bytes / bits deal.

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I work for an ISP and we have an Accelerator that we offer, what it does is. funnels all your web site traffice through a compression server that well compresses the data, even gif/jpeg(althought the clarity isn't as good as the orginal) but then forwards it to you, and the software that is installed on your machince decompresses it.

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