Hi Folks,
Luggers using dial-up in the Anglian sticks (and these are about as sticky as sticks get) may like to keep an eye on
They claim to offer compression-based internet connections which are capable of increasing the throughput by a factor of about 10: 30kb/s->300kb/s. This is nudging broadband rates. And it's portable.
At present, it is available for "PC" (= Windows) and Mac, for £24.96 a year. It involves installing some software on the machine that dials up and apparently routing the connection through onspeed.
According to their website:
http://www.onspeed.com/en/using.php#existing
"Next year we expect to bring out software for Linux. Please email us here to let us know which platforms / browsers you are interested in and we will get in touch with you when available."
and it looks as though that web page was written in 2004...
Maybe if we follow their suggestion, and encourage them a bit, they might accelerate this a bit! If they've done it for Mac OSX they can't be a hundred miles from doing it for Linux.
Any comments from people who are already familiar with Onspeed would be welcome.
Best wishes to all, Ted.
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