• Quick note - the problem with Youtube videos not embedding on the forum appears to have been fixed, thanks to ZiprHead. If you do still see problems let me know.

Anyone used "OnSpeed" - internet "accelerator"?

I did look into it a few weeks ago, and the premise sounds quite good. So long as you don't mind having fuzzy graphics.

(Which I do, so I didn't actually try it. Sorry!)
 
Onspeed does the following: Instead of directly loading the data from the webserver it loads a compressed version via an onspeed server, which grabs the data and compresses it before sending it to you. Works like a proxy. I wouldn't want that, for privacy reasons. After some configuration/install hassle (the software seems to be in kinda beta status), it seems to work okay with most web-pages. Increasing the download speed of big files, however, does not work with ZIP, RAR, mp3, Flash etc. since these files already are compressed, so nothing to compress here anymore. As noted by the previous poster, image quality is bad, because onspeed uses more compression here. Given the cost of onspeed, a different provider (package) might give you more for the money.
 
You have broadband?

How much faster is "nearly instantaneous"?

If we all still had 56K max pipes, I'd say go for it... or maybe even buy that silly double modem thing and get two lines for "near" ISDN speeds.

Seriously, anything that uses caching and proxy is BAD BAD BAD... or maybe I should say it works as well as AOhelL.
 
If you live in an area where you can't get broadband (still quite common in the UK, sadly), then this could be for you. Especially if your web usage is primarily looking at plain old web pages like the JREF Forum.

If you need a connection for emails, file downloads and....ahem....pictures....then this won't really help. I know a few people who have tried it and it is great for getting a standard web page up fast.
 
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