Supercharge your dialup 5X for only $10 a month!

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08-21-2003, 06:22 AM
kpxgq

Supercharge your dialup 5X for only $10 a month!

Im sure all of you have seen these banners advertising up to 5x dialup speeds using a plain old dialup connection... well my cousin who lives in a god foresaken neighborhood (no broadband available) asked me of any other options.... so i signed him up for the $9 a month supercharged 56k at allvantage.com ... i was skeptical, but hey its only 10 bucks, so even normal 56k speeds would be alrite... well, the stuff works.... nowhere near the speed of my cable connection, but the difference is noticable, i'd say a good 2-3x faster loading of webpages.... just thought id tell you guys who are still on dialup... netzero/juno and taleng.com also offer the "supercharged" service.....
08-21-2003, 10:27 AM
ace727861986

Re: Supercharge your dialup 5X for only $10 a month!

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Originally posted by kpxgq
Im sure all of you have seen these banners advertising up to 5x dialup speeds using a plain old dialup connection... well my cousin who lives in a god foresaken neighborhood (no broadband available) asked me of any other options.... so i signed him up for the $9 a month supercharged 56k at allvantage.com ... i was skeptical, but hey its only 10 bucks, so even normal 56k speeds would be alrite... well, the stuff works.... nowhere near the speed of my cable connection, but the difference is noticable, i'd say a good 2-3x faster loading of webpages.... just thought id tell you guys who are still on dialup... netzero/juno and taleng.com also offer the "supercharged" service.....

hummm thats funny i am kinda wondering how they are doing it bc the FCC will only allow up to like 56k or whatever.
08-21-2003, 10:59 AM
muzikjunkie

Netzero and Juno have a proprietery thing, where webpages go through their servers and then to you faster, it doesn't make certain downloads faster though
08-21-2003, 11:13 AM
xboxundone

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Originally posted by muzikjunkie
Netzero and Juno have a proprietery thing, where webpages go through their servers and then to you faster, it doesn't make certain downloads faster though

It is probably similar to those netspeed programs that were around for a wil that save the page cached and uses the cached information unless it ahs changed which makes pages SEEM to load faster since it only downloads parts of the page.
08-21-2003, 11:21 AM
gateways_rule

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Originally posted by xboxundone
It is probably similar to those netspeed programs that were around for a wil that save the page cached and uses the cached information unless it ahs changed which makes pages SEEM to load faster since it only downloads parts of the page.

Yeah, that's what they basically are I believe. There's really no way you can get faster than about 6KB a sec on dial-up.
08-21-2003, 01:13 PM
MrBrett

For awhile there was some company offering a sort of "dual channel" modem that had the capeability to dial up two (maybe more than that) lines at once and combine the bandwidth; or at least that's what they were advertising on the box. So, assuming they were right, if you could afford to buy a whole bunch of extra phone lines you could dial up to your ISP on multiple lines and get 56k x 2+. I think it was a diamond multimedia modem...didn't last long though because I don't think anyone wanted to have three phone lines in their house.
08-21-2003, 01:27 PM
muzikjunkie

ya, ISDN, still around kinda, not really worth the price though
08-21-2003, 04:42 PM
raider1v1

i just hooked up a isdn line into our office last month because dsl isnt available yet :( its 2 124k lines tied together with a 16k.

and the 2 or 3 lines thing, why not just use shotgunning. i remember when i was like 12 that was the bomb.
08-21-2003, 05:07 PM
PointlesS

I'm sure they use web caching too but they also use a form of compression where they send the page to you in a compressed format so the web page will be smaller in size...then when it gets to you it becomes uncompressed and displayed on the screen...
08-21-2003, 05:38 PM
Terry

Hmm, wonder what is the uncompressor.
Some special browser they give you?
08-21-2003, 06:20 PM
PointlesS

yeah they have their own special browser
08-21-2003, 07:25 PM
muzikjunkie

like i said, it's proprietery stuff they use
08-21-2003, 07:34 PM
kpxgq

well for the allvantage that i used.... theres a program running in the taskbar that recieves compressed webpage info and decompresses it... theres no proprietary browser or anything.. it also tells you how much data got compressed and how much data is actually sent, etc...

https://www.sharkyforums.com/
08-21-2003, 07:41 PM
ewitte

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Originally posted by kpxgq
well for the allvantage that i used.... theres a program running in the taskbar that recieves compressed webpage info and decompresses it... theres no proprietary browser or anything.. it also tells you how much data got compressed and how much data is actually sent, etc...

https://webspace.utexas.edu/kimj88/s...allvantage.JPG

So you need a p4 2.53ghz or better to do the decompression :)

Eric
08-21-2003, 07:55 PM
MrBrett

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Originally posted by raider1v1
and the 2 or 3 lines thing, why not just use shotgunning. i remember when i was like 12 that was the bomb.

That's what it was, shotgunning! It was like having two modems on one card.
08-22-2003, 06:52 PM
rimmerchant

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Originally posted by PointlesS
I'm sure they use web caching too but they also use a form of compression where they send the page to you in a compressed format so the web page will be smaller in size...then when it gets to you it becomes uncompressed and displayed on the screen...

hmm, that's a pretty neat idea. the problem is when u download pictures, mp3s, video or zip files that trick is useless.

but smart idea for websurfing
08-23-2003, 01:50 PM
OutKlast

I saw an ad for a box that combines 2 high speed internet connections, they can be different speeds. It'd be kinda cool to do 2 DSL lines, or even 1 DSL, 1 cable. Cable allowing that burst speed, DSL for reliablity. It was a little pricey, like $300 for the box. But for someone who needs a connection faster then DSL or Cable but isnt ready to get T1 or similar it seems like a damn good idea.
08-23-2003, 02:01 PM
PointlesS

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Originally posted by rimmerchant
hmm, that's a pretty neat idea. the problem is when u download pictures, mp3s, video or zip files that trick is useless.

but smart idea for websurfing

actually I believe the pictures that are displayed on the sites do get compressed as well...however when this happens there will most likely be some image degration...someone that I know has this 5x faster 56k thing and when they got it they noticed that the colors on pictures would be a little off or blurry...and actual download speeds do not increase though...
08-23-2003, 02:26 PM
Terry

What is shotgunning
08-23-2003, 03:25 PM
PointlesS

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Originally posted by Terry
What is shotgunning

it's basically 2 56k modems working together but it's pretty expensive since you need 2 phone lines and (maybe?) 2 accounts depending on if your isp supports it or not...
08-23-2003, 03:36 PM
lessthanjake_666

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Originally posted by OutKlast
I saw an ad for a box that combines 2 high speed internet connections, they can be different speeds. It'd be kinda cool to do 2 DSL lines, or even 1 DSL, 1 cable. Cable allowing that burst speed, DSL for reliablity. It was a little pricey, like $300 for the box. But for someone who needs a connection faster then DSL or Cable but isnt ready to get T1 or similar it seems like a damn good idea.

any idea what the product was called or who made it?
08-23-2003, 03:42 PM
raider1v1

i think that you were talking about a load balancing router. i looked into it, and its not worth it unless you are using t1 lines or above.
08-23-2003, 04:00 PM
OutKlast

I saw it on an ad in Gamespy. I don't know if this is the one I looked at but it has a review

http://overclockersclub.com/newscomm...VFVkuAkrFWMeS&

He said it did balance the D/L's well, and that the internet seemed faster.