Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: DSL Speed On Dial-up

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Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 08-22-2003, 11:21 PM:

What's your opinion?

http://www.proxyconn.com/

Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 08-23-2003, 02:02 AM:

You get what you pay for. Or in this case a bit less.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-23-2003, 02:33 AM:

If "hundreds of thousands" of people are using this, why have we not heard of it before?

Posted by Paul Cassidy (Member # 951) on 08-23-2003, 04:32 AM:

Interesting ...has anyone used it yet ????

Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 08-23-2003, 11:18 AM:

a Quote from their FAQ page.

quote:
How much faster will my connection be?
Connection and download speed depend on your modem speed, current phone line conditions, computer performance and configuration, on the type of data/graphics you download and on net traffic. On average you should expect up to 5x faster browsing speed*.

*Speed of service, uninterrupted and error-free service is not guaranteed.

Posted by Paul Cassidy (Member # 951) on 08-23-2003, 11:30 AM:

Wow I get that without adding anything [Frown]

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 08-23-2003, 11:39 AM:

It sounds like they're doing a couple of things: caching web content from popular sites on their servers (which are presumably more reliable and better-connected than the original sites, which isn't necessarily true), filtering out banner ads, and using some sort of compression scheme when sending that cached content to the client.

The end result is that this method definitely won't improve speed for stuff like large downloads, non-web activities (mail, ftp, ssh/telnet, online games, streaming audio/video, etc.), and pretty much anything but web surfing to very popular sites.

If I'm interpreting the information on their web site correctly, and if it really does work, it's probably not so much a "scam" as it is an "ill-conceived idea."

Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 08-23-2003, 12:10 PM:

Probably an ill-conceived idea as Scott pointed out. A big banner promoting this was present on Microsoft's web bage. That's where I got the link from.

Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 08-25-2003, 02:50 AM:

Some of these compare speed increases from "switching from AOL". Just dumping all the AOL junk probably accounts for the increase.