Dial up accelerator software

Leslie

Leslie

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actually does give the sense of fastererness. :eek:

I was losing it so I downloaded the one my ISP advertises (free) to use for the day lol. I never thought it`d do shit but it actually *feels* faster.
 
It compresses text. It won't download files faster (jpegs, etc.) but in text- and code-heavy sites, like OTC, you would notice a difference.
 
If the dial-up connection is PPP at layer 2 (very likely) it can use MPPC or Predictor compression. I believe Predictor is fairly CPU intensive at the ISP end though. Or maybe its Stacker that's more CPU intensive. I don't remember right now.

Either way, the answers are compression and caching.
 
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