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New Breed Of Web Accelerators Actually Work

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the os-dependency dept.

axlrosen writes "Web accelerators first came around years ago, and they didn't live up to the hype. Now TV commercials are advertising accelerators that speed up your dial-up connection by up to 5 times, they say. AOL and EarthLink throw them in for free; some ISPs charge a monthly fee. Tests by PC World, PC Magazine and CNET show that they do speed up your surfing quite a bit. They work by using improved compression and caching. The downside is they don't help streaming video or audio." And they require non-Free software on the client's end, too.

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  1. It's not an ISP in the first place! by Lispy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, you got it all wrong. AOL is not for people who want to connect to the Internet. It was never intended to. It's for people who like living in golden cages or disneyland. That's what it's for. Basically it's a LAN with a popup-forcing adselling-machine. No way would anyone use it to surf the web. The Internet was thrown in as added value in the mid90s when the "superinformation highway" was the buzzword of the day. Much the same as today they are inclduing spamfilters that are substandard. It's all about the hype.

    I would even tend to suspect that the Illuminati are involved (ever recodgnized the pyramid logo?). It must be some sort of conspiracy, after all they act like a newage-church giving away all those free CD-ROMs. ;-)