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Reply #15 - 12.07.11 at 18:03:26
 
@Gary, thanks for the hosting info site, was an interesting read.
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Reply #16 - 24.09.11 at 17:32:21
 
batracio wrote on 12.07.11 at 10:55:13:
Ok, now I understand what you meant by "using proxy servers to speed up my connection". I thought you expected to get the speed gain from a standard free caching proxy. Obviously you were talking about a compression proxy.

Well, there are several proxies with compression features, but most of them just provide the source code for a do-it-yourself proxy server. You have to realize that compression is a CPU intensive task and therefore you will hardly get it for free. But if you know someone who has a broadband connection, the required knowledge to set up a proxy server on his machine, and the willing to let you use it for free, you may try one of the following proxies:

http://khelekore.org/rabbit/
http://ziproxy.sourceforge.net/
http://resume.technoplaza.net/c/zrpc.php

As you pointed out, another option is to buy an ISP with some kind of dial-up acceleration, or a speeding service that works on top of your existing ISP. Those services claim varying degrees of speed increases (up to 15 times faster dial-up connections, which I find hard to believe). And they are not free, of course. I think you should read other user's comments and reviews about these services before buying anything. Here are some of the most well-known ones:

http://www.netzero.net/
http://portal.onspeed.com/
http://www.earthlink.net/dialup/

I have also found a free service based on server-side data compression and a client-side decompressing proxy. You have to install a Java application and configure your dial-up connection to use the local proxy. I don't think you would get a clearly noticeable speed up, as it uses a generic lossless ZIP compression for every type of content. Most images are already compressed using a lossy algorithm (JPEG encoding), so a lossless algorithm won't compress them any further. At least you can try it for free:

http://toonel.net/

I tried toonel, and just could not get it to work.  Not sure if it was something I did, or if they are shut down.  Thank you for the other ideas though, it's much appreciated.
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Reply #17 - 25.10.11 at 20:42:25
 
Buck, has any of these suggestions helped speed things up a little bit for you? More or less just curious.
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Reply #18 - 26.10.11 at 06:41:03
 
A bit.  I already use Getright for downloads, but since it was mentioned that they can also be a bad idea, I use the free version which at most only allows 5 connections max, so that minimizes overhead.  As for the hosts file, I gave up cause it is a little out of my element. 

I did find some idea on ways to modify the way my modem works and the registry and port setting using a program called Cablenut.  It does seem to have increased the load speed of pages a little. 

I already use adblock pro to block ads and it is most effective. 

I use Fasterfox in Firefox, not sure but it does seem to have sped stuff up, at least a little anyways. 

Any other ideas?
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