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Title: Onspeed Post by: untelepathic on January 19 2008 12:45pm I just took the cue from this site and tried it out (yes, actually paid them 40 euro).
It looks like a standard proxy server that compresses a site's images (and other things like Flash files, I assume) before sending them to your browser. So it cannot increase your speed when downloading files or e-mails, only web pages. I tested it on the i-choice 512 I have at home and the net result was: It didn't work. In fact, it made things slower. Don't know if it works for dialup users though. Maybe someone else here can tell us. Title: Re: Onspeed Post by: Admin on January 19 2008 05:42pm Hello untelepathic,
In our onspeed page there is an explanation of how onspeed works: Quote When your web browser requests a web page the Onspeed software redirects that request to the Onspeed compression servers. They take the web page content, compress it and send it back down to the Onspeed software which decompresses it and sends it to the browser requesting the information. In this way Onspeed can significantly increase the speed of web surfing and email downloads. From my personal experience it works wonders with Dial-up connection. It makes web surfing almost as responsive as broadband. This is why I recommend onspeed for dial-up users in areas where ADSL is not available. In the case of broadband onspeed can help only in the downloads of large uncompressed websites where the compression done by onspeed will be a benefit greater than the added latency. The fastest your broadband is, the fewer the cases onspeed can make a difference. Onspeed offers a 14-day money back guarantee which you can use, and probably you should unless onspeed is installed on a computer which could be used with a dial-up or GPRS connection in the near future. Title: Re: Onspeed Post by: untelepathic on January 22 2008 07:38am I just logged into their support chatter and asked for a refund. It seems to have gone pretty well. Now all that remains is them sending me my money back. ;)
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