How to Speed Up Your dial-up connection.

 

Do you remember the days? Firing up your turbo 200 MHz PowerPC, dial your modem 56 k, waiting for an age to the hotmail page display, waiting for some more to check e-mail only to have your chip connection similar to pressing the submit button! Changing times. Interestingly, once you have used quickly forget how painful was dial-up broadband connection. I used to run my business on dial and looking back I managed them quite well. But these days there is no way could do without my broadband connection. There is no doubt that broadband is well and truly here to stay. Of course it is a logical progression - streaming audio and video demand much more bandwidth and broadband connections are the only way to achieve something that is usable at all. A recent survey revealed that 53% of Americans who use the Internet now use of band connection broadband. What they failed to point out is, of course, this means 47% still use dial-up. In reality, this equates to about 60 million people. This kind of statistics are duplicated in other developed countries. When you consider that a large part in developing countries still using Dial below, you realize that is a lot of people still using a slow Internet connection.

So is it possible to speed up your dial-up connection?

Well indeed it is. There are quite a few services online these days, which allows to "accelerate" your dial-up connection. These Internet accelerators are intended to be able to increase the speed of your connection so as six or seven times marking.

Before scream with delight in this perspective, I believe that I have to say now that these accelerator services are not high speed broadband Internet services. Use a different type of technology based on the same idea as such things as zip files and mp3 files. These files use a compression algorithm to drastically reduce the size of the file.

Internet accelerators work the same way and most providers has also implemented a storage technology cached whereby store local copies of popular web sites. These local copies are pre compressed and can be sent to the user very quickly. The user has one piece of software sitting at your computer decompresses the data as it is. It's how you achieve dramatic speed increases.

Many people an excellent report success with these systems. Some people even compares accelerators with broadband services

So while it's a really good thing for basic websites, technology falls as soon as you start working with large video or audio etc. files. Mp3 from a file is already compressed no compression much more than can be done, and therefore the Internet Accelerator has little effect. Furthermore, many services have meaning that will not even attempt to compress anything as big as a pop music mp3 file regular file size limit.

But if you are only uploading without too much flash animation and all other bells and whistles normal web pages, then I recommend it you will get an accelerated service. If your ISP does not offer it there are many who do vote with their feet and withdraw some of these great services

For more information simply search Google or Yahoo! the term "dialup Accelerator" or something similar to "speed up my dial-up connection". You will find lots of vendors ready to serve you.

NetZero and EarthLink are some popular United States services. United Kingdom want to be a glimpse of someone as Mistral or onspeed.com