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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(Ted Harding) wrote:
Any comments from people who are already familiar with Onspeed would be welcome.
I tried it. If you are desperate and really cannot get broadband in any shape or form then I recommend this as a last chance saloon. All it does it compress images so pages load quicker, so you see a worse page but loads quicker.
How to save your money: Turn images off and when you come to a page you want turn them on again.
my 2p
Steve Purkiss
btw: moving to Toronto on 9th Feb as fallen in love ;) Will still be working and promoting and keeping my business here, just be working remotely... so anyone wanting connections in Canada let me know!
The message XFMail.050123204801.Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk from (Ted Harding) Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk contains these words:
Any comments from people who are already familiar with Onspeed would be welcome.
You only get the speed with compressible items. Files like jpegs are only speeded up if you set the quality to low.
With the software I use, there's little to be gained as all mail/news sent and received is in compressed packets.
It is reported to speed up web browsing, but again - only if you're prepared to put up with low resolution pics.
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