April 2nd, 2005
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 | Chattery Nerd | | Join Date: April 1st, 2005 Location: Sydney > NSW > Australia
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 Re: Accelerator? You need broadband
Quote: Originally posted by ukbobboy01
I agree with LOTR and Night-Fire, an accelerator is a really naff idea because software accelerators only give the appearance of more speed without giving you anything.
Back in the dim and distant past I had a dial-up connection, I also got myself an accelerator which worked by caching (in my PCs memory) the next logical connection. However, if I decided to surf somewhere else, rather than the next screen page, I would loose the cache and my fake speed.
LW works by making dynamic connections, i.e. if you loose a connection to a file you are downloading LW tries to find another without interupting your download. How would you cache connections like that especially as one the many PCs you are connected to can be switched off at any time.
What is needed, if you have a slow connection, e.g. dial-up, is a faster connection, i.e. broadband (ASDL).
Nothing else will give you the speed you want.
UK Bob | LOL Don't Tease me im on DU (till monday). but you have a strong point. Yet some people are like me they want DSL but parents won't allow them to have it (mostly in Australia (this country is full of tight A*S's)) This is for the fact broadband is a expencive item to have here. EG: a ISP im going with does 12Gig Dls/Capped after the 12 Gigs have been Dled. They charge $30 AUD a month, some places world wide charge about $10 AUD for the same thing just a tad less DL's.  |