John Veteran Posted September 25, 2003 Veteran Share Posted September 25, 2003 broadband isn't available everywhere yet sadly :( this helps i guess... :ermm: but i would rather get satellite internet than 56k :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inertia Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCKing Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 contrary to what anyone claims, the data stream over a phone line will never exceed 53k in the US... thats an FCC thing and companies cannot change it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital.K Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clonk Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted September 30, 2003 Veteran Share Posted September 30, 2003 maybe, but even if he didn't know, he's still correct :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdenike Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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