Internet Accelerator

[Jason]

Has anyone tried these so called Internet Accelators which pre download images and information through links on the pages you visit? Has anyone had any luck (good or bad) with them? How do these companies benefit from doing this? Do they display an ad bar? Do they collect information about your surfing habbits? Input anyone?

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Jason M. DesRoches
Co-Founder / Business Development
Big Resources Network (http://www.bigresources.com)
jason@bigresources.com
ICQ: 17947522

[Ian]

Hi,Personally I think they are a waste of time and do very little to increase surfing speed. I tried a few different ones a few years ago (netsonic was one, I don't recall any of the others off hand ) and found they only really did anything if you spent a reasonable period of time (several minutes at least) on a page ( IE: if you were reading an article or something )and gave it time to load images on linked pages. This was also only effective providing there were not many links exiting the current page or else the browser was bogged down loading images from dozens of different sites and as you're more than likely to only click on one link, all you end up with is a heap of extra cache files from other pages and/or sites which are worthless, not to mention a waste of space.

I'm sure the various programmes have improved since I tried them, but the principal is still the same.

The only program I found of any use to increase speed was PPP-Boost, which allows you to edit the MaxMTU, R-WIN and TTL settings, these are windows dial up networking registary setting that windows makes a poor job of setting up. Reset these, and depending on your current settings, you can expect your download speed to double at least.

These are just my thoughts from experiences, I will look forward to reading others comments on this as well.

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Ian

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[whkoh]

I feel that that's a waste of time. It's much faster going directly there.

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Koh Wei Han
Network Engineer
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[brobe]

QUICK NOTE: If anyone has gone from a dial up modem to some sort of broadband connection such as (dsl, cable, etc) and at some point you installed a download accelerator for your modem and never removed it properly then most likely you have have grave performance issues with your cable or dsl modem. From my experiences, my dsl modem wasn't much better than a 56k when i did this. Not knowing what was wrong, i formatted my computer and when everything came back up it was fast. Later, I found out that these download accel. make your setting read / send smaller packets of data so that your dial up modem can read and write faster. But when you get that broadband modem going, it has cut your speed way down into those same chunks.

RECOMMEND: If you have a dial up and are moving your connection to a broadband style connection and have installed one of these download accel. then please read up on how to successfully rid your computer of these settings or to restore the windows default settings.

Other than that nothing can really increase the bandwidth that is allotted to the type of broadband connection you have. All these download accelerators do is adjust the sizes that packets are allowed to flow in and out of your computer. So in reality it is just maximizing the potential of your connection whether broadband or not.

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[Jason]

Wow, sounds like a pain! I've installed netsetter before, just to test it out, and ever since I've been finding pieces, even thought I went through the regular uninstall. It really does leave stuff everywhere. One place where I found stuff which I wouldn't have guessed was in the connections tab of IE options, under the dial up properities for the varous dial up services I use. It was forcing a proxy. Long story short, I hope that I don't have to doa reformat when I move to DSL. This stuff just keeps turning up!

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Jason M. DesRoches
Co-Founder / Business Development
Big Resources Network (http://www.bigresources.com)
jason@bigresources.com
ICQ: 17947522

[Unregistered]

Netsetter is becoming a nightmare for me. There is just no way to get rid of it. I can't reinstall it to see what files it changes and I can't log into the members site because I lost my password and I have since changed my email address. So, at this point the only way to dump this pathetic add in is to format my drive and reinstall windows. That is just bogus. What right do they have to make such a mess out of someones system? It is a virus as far as I'm concerned. It gets in and stays. It has got to be illegal, particularly since they use your web browsing habits to sell to other companies so that they can send you junk mail. PLEASE DO NOT EVER SIGN UP FOR NETSETTER. Even if you just tried it out and think you uninstalled it---YOU HAVEN'T. It is still in there monitoring all your personal information. What a mess!!!!

-dana