onspeed?

LabR@t · 1 Mar 2006 at 16:52

hi i have a mate who lives just outside broadband reach he just surfs net no gamming, have read about this onspeed thingy, always thought it was junk but my nilly newsletter recommends it for dial up users

has anyone used this and would like to share experiences of it plz?

Eliot · 1 Mar 2006 at 20:55

i would also like to know, its is gonna sound stupid and im sure it wont but here goes, can you download faster with it? It is meant to be good mind

tolien · 1 Mar 2006 at 21:06

It's not going to accelerate your connection beyond what it's capable of - all it's doing is compressing things as much as they can get away with at their end, so it appears faster.

Must be in the middle of nowhere not to be able to get some kind of broadband though :confused:

SexyGreyFox · 1 Mar 2006 at 21:18

I read a review that it magically caches the web pages you go to and makes them load faster but it does not increase your download speed.

Mikey1280 · 1 Mar 2006 at 21:53

If you want to download and cache links in the background while surfing you can use Fasterfox with prefetching enabled, using fasterfox may help with dial up as well.

Amp34 · 1 Mar 2006 at 23:02

Supposedly its pretty good for surfing webpages, but if you want to download files like video then it doesnt make any difference, it also doesnt work on secure pages and arious other things.

PinkPig · 1 Mar 2006 at 23:04

It certainly won't make a jot of difference for downloading files of any sort. For general surfing apparrently it works fairly well over dial-up connections as long as you're not quite believing the "as good as broadband" hype. One maths teacher of mine spent every other lesson telling us about it.

AJUK · 2 Mar 2006 at 08:15

A friend has this because he is too tight to get BB; he likes it. I haven't seen it working but it is meant to help browsing but as others have said for downloading will make little difference. You should make sure that his TCP/IP settings are optimized to the max, try this

Elston · 2 Mar 2006 at 13:37

I used it for a year (parents own a farm in the middle of wales, they still cant get broadband!) and i found it made a considerable difference to my general internet browsing. Pages do load a lot quicker and you can set the level of image compression to low quality to speed it up more. Afterall this is what really kills 56k connections. As already stated downloads do not change at all, only things done via the browser.

Only annoying thing i found was that as it goes via thier servers you have to set your browser up to go via a proxy and every now and again it would just drop the connection for no reason, you then had to tell it to reconnect or if it still failed you would have change the proxy settings just to be able to continue. Not a hugh problem just annoying really.

LabR@t · 2 Mar 2006 at 15:56

tolien said:
It's not going to accelerate your connection beyond what it's capable of - all it's doing is compressing things as much as they can get away with at their end, so it appears faster.

Must be in the middle of nowhere not to be able to get some kind of broadband though

old newton suffolk, hes just short of getting it

tolien · 2 Mar 2006 at 16:03

LabR@t said:
old newton suffolk, hes just short of getting it

You are aware there's...no limit?