How To Speed Up Dial Up Connection

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Do you remember the days? Firing up your 200Mhz trubo PowerPC, dialling up using your 56k modem, waiting an age for your hotmail page to show up, waiting more to check your e-mails only to have your connection die just as you hit the send button!
How times change. It's funny, once you've used broadband you quickly forget how painful the dial up connection was.

I used to run my businses on dial up and looking back I managed rather well.
But these days there's no way I colud do without my broadband connection.
There's no doubt about it, brodaband is well and truly here to stay. It is of course a logical progression - streaming audio and video demand much higher bandwidth and broadband connections are the only way to achieve anything which is at all usable. A recent survey revealed that 53% of Americans who use the Internet right now use a broadband connection.

What they failed to ponit out is that obviously that means 47% still use a dial up connection. This actually equates to around 60 million persons.

These kind of statistics are mirrored in other developed countries. When you consider a large chunk of the developing world still uses dial up then you realize that's an awful lot of persons still using a slow Internet connection. So is it possbile to speed up your dial up connection?

Well actually yes it is.
There are quite a few services online these days allowing you to "accelerate" your dial up connection. These Internet accelerators claim to be able to boost the speed of your dial up connection by as much as six or seven times. Before you scream with delight at that prospect I believe I should point out right right now that these accelerator services are not high speed broadband Internet services.

They use a different kind of technology based on the same idea as things like zip files and mp3 fiels. These files use a compression algorithm to dramatically reudce the file size. Internet accelerators work in the same way and most providers have also implemented a caching technology whereby they store lcoal copies of popular web sites. Tehse local copies are pre compressed and can be sent to the user really quickly. The user has a piece of software sitting on their PC which decompresses the data as it coems in. This is how the draamtic speed increases are achieved. Many persons report excellent success with these systems. Some persons are even comparing the accelerators with broadband services So while that is a really good thing for basic web pages, the technology falls down as soon as you start working with large video or audio files etc.

Since an mp3 file is already compressed there's not much more compression that can be done and so the Internet accelerator has little effcet. Plus many services have a file size limit meaning they will not even attempt to compress anything as big as a regular pop music mp3 file.
But if you're just loading up normal web pages without too much flash animation and all the other bells and whistles, then I highly recommend you get yourself an accelerated service.

If your ISP doesn't offer it there are plenty that do so vote with your feet and check out of these excellent services.

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How To Speed Up Your Dial Up Connection.