Dose it really work? I don't think I they do at all. Then again I could be wrong. I have "half" DSL, Earthlink's way to make you pay $15 extra for 1.5mb/s. Anyway I started thinking of ways to boost my Internet and file dl speed with out paying that extra $15. I don't think they work cuz I went to this place to get a prog called Dr. Speed or something. And it said it could boost my speed by 250%. So I went ahead and dl it on Kazza. Then went and did there little test again. I went from 404 kb/s to 4800kb/s. So right away I'm thinking BS. Then I go to w*w.dsl.com did a similar speed test. Same speed that I had b4 I got Dr. Speed. So I uninstalled it. I don't know if it was something I did or whatever but I was just wondering if they’re where any progs out there that really does boost you Internet and dl speeds.
Internet Boosting Software?
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We all know about download managers.
The classic "Browser accelerator" is a cache prefetcher, which grabs content from links that it assumes you may visit - and some claim to learn, so they can be more accurate. ALL are useless if you jump directly via favourites, and may be actually harful in those cases by flushing more useful things from the cache.
This brings us to a more useful idea for those with a small, regular circle of sites - cache managers which replace Internet Explorers random flush strategy (it may have improved since these were first popular) with one based on last access, so your caching focuses on things that are used often.
Final category - DNS lookup caching (or permanent setting) - a bad idea unless your ISP DNS is very slow, as you can run into problems with stale addresses.
And the oldy but goody ... Ad-blockers - but the less you co-operate with the ad-system, especially at sites that deserve support, the sooner you'll be paying for content!
We all know about download managers.
The classic "Browser accelerator" is a cache prefetcher, which grabs content from links that it assumes you may visit - and some claim to learn, so they can be more accurate. ALL are useless if you jump directly via favourites, and may be actually harful in those cases by flushing more useful things from the cache.
This brings us to a more useful idea for those with a small, regular circle of sites - cache managers which replace Internet Explorers random flush strategy (it may have improved since these were first popular) with one based on last access, so your caching focuses on things that are used often.
Final category - DNS lookup caching (or permanent setting) - a bad idea unless your ISP DNS is very slow, as you can run into problems with stale addresses.
And the oldy but goody ... Ad-blockers - but the less you co-operate with the ad-system, especially at sites that deserve support, the sooner you'll be paying for content!
http://www.mindspring.com/~dpoch/enigmatic/index.html
See "Cache Sentry" - and it seems the behaviour which I noted (random flush) has been improved in current versions, but but the cure is not 100%
See "Cache Sentry" - and it seems the behaviour which I noted (random flush) has been improved in current versions, but but the cure is not 100%
IMHO ....call it what you want..."Internet Speed Up" "Dial up boost"....etc, you have a connection speed and no piece of software is going to dramically increase that. I know you can get software to auto or manually tweak the modem settings but in my experience I've found little difference.
The software that gives you the internet page from the cache, that isn't speeding up your internet connection but is in a way speeding up how fast the page loads. There are a couple of sites I visit and they have a ton of stuff on the home page, images, etc. As the home page doesn't change that often, I just look at that page offline, then the page loads almost instantly from the cache.
BTW, I connect at 28K, 32K on a good day, on my 56K dial up. Go a couple of blocks down and they hook up at 52K.....BOO HOO!!!!
I could get 800K wireless broadband for $30 a month but I'll have to save up for the dedicated PCMCIA modem....again...BOO HOO!!!!....lol.
....DreeM
The software that gives you the internet page from the cache, that isn't speeding up your internet connection but is in a way speeding up how fast the page loads. There are a couple of sites I visit and they have a ton of stuff on the home page, images, etc. As the home page doesn't change that often, I just look at that page offline, then the page loads almost instantly from the cache.
BTW, I connect at 28K, 32K on a good day, on my 56K dial up. Go a couple of blocks down and they hook up at 52K.....BOO HOO!!!!
I could get 800K wireless broadband for $30 a month but I'll have to save up for the dedicated PCMCIA modem....again...BOO HOO!!!!....lol.
....DreeM
I am not alone, they are NUTS
Download manager is great as pause/restart. My ISP has slowed but my connection is 115K! ??????????
I use an accelerator but I have NO IDEA if it is working.
My D/Ls are usually 24+K. Occasionally back up to 60K. Don't ask me but that is what the software shows. If I had money to burn DSL would be OK. Then again I do not need to D/L that much. What takes hours would be 15 mins then I woudl go nutso with MORE for no reason.
I guess it is like Viagra. If you think you NEED IT you are looking for trouble.
Download manager is great as pause/restart. My ISP has slowed but my connection is 115K! ??????????
I use an accelerator but I have NO IDEA if it is working.
My D/Ls are usually 24+K. Occasionally back up to 60K. Don't ask me but that is what the software shows. If I had money to burn DSL would be OK. Then again I do not need to D/L that much. What takes hours would be 15 mins then I woudl go nutso with MORE for no reason.
I guess it is like Viagra. If you think you NEED IT you are looking for trouble.
Internet boosting software for $15 wouldn't help. However, depending on your connection, you can find modem tweaks and faster web page loading download at http://speedguide.net
My personal favourite is http://www.dslreports.com/tools - tweak test.
The advice seems to make sense, and the Dr. TCP program lets you apply most tweaks without resorting to registry edit.
You may prefer to evaluate your own trip time figures, based on other advice of either...
1. large size ping - generally using MSS size
2. Ping while under a SINGLE thread download.
Raising RWIN can help on links which are considerably delayed, but actually fast enough and not prone to packet drop, the basic idea being to allow enough data in transit to fill the time it takes to return the first ACK.
Download accelerators?? are also not an instant win... using more threads than you need to saturate the slowest part of the link, be it your modem, or any part of the link between, generally reduces throughput.
On a slow site, you may get a bigger share of the throughput.
As far as browser acceleration, they all tend to rely on cache prefetch, which works only if you go where they expect you to.
The advice seems to make sense, and the Dr. TCP program lets you apply most tweaks without resorting to registry edit.
You may prefer to evaluate your own trip time figures, based on other advice of either...
1. large size ping - generally using MSS size
2. Ping while under a SINGLE thread download.
Raising RWIN can help on links which are considerably delayed, but actually fast enough and not prone to packet drop, the basic idea being to allow enough data in transit to fill the time it takes to return the first ACK.
Download accelerators?? are also not an instant win... using more threads than you need to saturate the slowest part of the link, be it your modem, or any part of the link between, generally reduces throughput.
On a slow site, you may get a bigger share of the throughput.
As far as browser acceleration, they all tend to rely on cache prefetch, which works only if you go where they expect you to.
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