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I have IE7. Windows XP home edition SP2.
Every time I try to run the FastAccess DSL Speed Optimization Tool
http://www.fastaccess.drivers.bellsouth.net/software/DSLspeedtool/systemcheckresult.html
it comes a pop up window to install ActiveX when I go ahead and
install
Active X comes another pop up window saying "windows has blocked
this
software becuse it can't verify the publisher. Is there a new
version of
the FastAccess DSL Speed Optimization Tool?
They used a certificate to digitally sign their software but the cert
is for a different domain from where they have you download their
software or the cert has expired or is no longer valid. You'll need
to tell the software vendor to resign their software with a valid
certificate, or ignore the warning and proceed with the install for an
invalidly signed program (you'll need to check your security options
to see "download unsigned Activex" is set to Disabled or Prompt).
So just what do you think this optimization software will do for you?
The default packet size in Windows should match what the ISP is using.
Most likely this is crapware that pretends to speed up your bandwidth
because it only partially downloads any image files in the HTML page.
Text-only web pages won't be sped up. Web pages with graphics may
download faster because ... drum roll ... only some of the image gets
download which also means for crappy looking images. The software did
nothing to change the actual bandwidth. It just reduced how much of
an image got yanked which obviously only helps on graphic-intensive
web pages to reduce their quality. So why bother downloading the
images at all if they are unimportant (some are image maps on which
you need to click but usually they are fluff). With the old IE
"Toggle Images" powertoy, you could change IE on-the-fly as to whether
or not it would pull image files listed in web page. Downloading only
text goes very fast. Won't work if the web site is using Flash for
all its content (which is streamed image data with scripting).
