dialup?

thermophilis

thermophilis

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Is there really a way to speed up dialup, with all those fake "internet accelerators" around, or am I stuck at 8 k/s:eek: ? Just thought i'd ask.
 
no, those accelerators don't speed the connection up and you are stuck at 8kbs Im afraid. Where do you live, the price of Broadband here isnt much more expensive than dialup.
 
If you are only getts 8k then you should get a new modem or better dial up service.......you should be able to get up to 56k.
 
@Rip_Uk: in the us, oregon, broadband cost ten to fifteen usd more a month.

@Arm_pit: sorry, I was looking at download speed, the actual internet speed is about 39k which is still slow for a 56k modem.

@Charles_Lee: no I don't use any wireless, or a router, it goes directly to my phone line.
 
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$10-15 more a month isn't bad, especially if you can triple or quadruple you up/down speed. My old DSL was ~700KB/s down, many mroe times faster than dialup and mor reliable as well.
 
Dial-up accelerators work to an extent. What they actually do is compress images and text, which makes them load faster, however it reduces the image quality. All it "speeds up" is web page loading. Games, downloads, video streaming, ect will not be effected.
 
@4W4K3, I really can't afford 15$ more right now (about $25 dollars) otherwise I would have jumped on that a long time ago.

@[-OMEGA-] do you know of any that would work (I don't rallly care about image quality) oh and if I printed the image, would it be of lower quality after the print.
Thanks
 
I think you can find better dial up. I usked to get 56k(I could only connect at 48.8K though) for 4.99 a month. IVWNET
 
That's cool, not everyone can. I know I couldn't afford my internet if I had to pay for it, would be downgrading for sure.
 
Dialup blows big time...it's like waiting for the grass to grow! You can get cheap DSL from sbc right now 768k or something for like $12.95 a month!

If you cant get DSL I would buy 2 fax machine's, one for your house and one for a friends house with cable or dsl, then he can fax you web pages it would be faster than dialup!
 
DSL isnt worldwide, and there is no price guarantee. Some places can charge more simply based on location, other places don't offer it at all. If that's all that's available, don't tease him about it.
 
yeahi.m kinda rural so dsl is expensive, along with any other fastish internet. Wait, Arm_pit2? isn't there already an Arm_pit *thinks* hm.
Btw, thanks 4W4K3
 
try changing your access numbers if you have extras for your area, because when i was on aol some of their numbers went at 28k and others at 48k....
 
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