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indiaoscar

29th March 2005 19:36

Onspeed with broadband

I installed Onspeed when I was using dial up and found it did improve access speeds considerably. I have now moved on to 1Mb/s broadband. Does Onspeed make any difference or should I uninstall it?

IO540

29th March 2005 20:42

If you plan to never use dialup again, I would disable it.

1) Onspeed.com's server caps the data rate to about 300k bits/sec (my estimate)

2) Their compression software reads ahead quite a bit (has to, for effective compression) so there are long gaps in the data. On dial-up or GPRS these aren't that visible but they are very visible on ADSL.

indiaoscar

29th March 2005 20:51

Thanks for that info. I have actually removed my dial up modem so there's no chance I shall be using dial up. May as well get rid of Onspeed as it seems to cause problems when it occasionally fails to be connected.

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