REQ: Speed Booster

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Rodders said:
Request freeware to boost speed of dialup internet connection.
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Doesn't exist.

Dialup max speed down with a 56K modem is 53 kbps which is 6.625 KB. That's
max possible. Most get around 4 - 4.5 KB. If you are getting less than
that you may be able to tweak settings to improve a bit. Which is all the
"download accelerator" programs do.

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På Fri said:
Request freeware to boost speed of dialup internet connection.

TIA
Rod.
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Internet Speed Booster 3.
Includes 3 utilities: Network pinger; memory-freeing module; internet
speed booster.
Found it on Brothersoft.
Recommended.
 
Doesn't exist.

Dialup max speed down with a 56K modem is 53 kbps which is 6.625 KB. That's
max possible. Most get around 4 - 4.5 KB. If you are getting less than
that you may be able to tweak settings to improve a bit. Which is all the
"download accelerator" programs do.
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There are some other "snake oil" approaches - not freeware, well, not
unless you include some rather dubious ones.

Onspeed is one that can be semi-trusted and essentially comprises a
fast cache server, (which may be better, but more distant, than your
ISP's cache) which server content with additional software compression
and quality-damaging image recompression.

Under ideal conditions, it does work.


What you should do, instead, is to run the serial port speed of a 56k
modem at 115200 (or 230400 if supported), with error correction and
compression enabled.

I most definitely got 25k BYTES per second (a full 230k bits/sec) on
newsgroup headers (easily compressible text) when I had my old 56k
modem, working at 49k.

With that kind of compression available, I doubt that Onspeed would
have made much difference unless I murdered the graphics!



PS. "Download accelerators" do not tweak, they push hard with multiple
threads against congested servers and connections.

The tweakers, of which I favour
http://easymtu.tripod.com/easymtu/index.html
enable you to tweak the MTU setting (I found that with my ISP, 1500
was GOOD on dialup - when the path to many places is now going to be
1500 all the way, it does help), and so the RWIN is then 4x the 1460
MSS - that gave me as much as that modem could deliver, and the Intel
HaM chipset modem certainly delivered it well.


There is a "sweet spot" for the IE cache, and that spot may be to to
allow it to be insanely large in IE, and restrict it using:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/cachesentry.html

If you reboot daily or more, and especially if on dialup, you can
probably just have it trim it at startup and exit, and with the IE
cache set much larger, ther will be no cache trimming while you browse
 
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