ArticlesReader.com Menu
Newest Articles
Most Viewed Articles
ArticlesReader.com RSS
Submit Article
Login
Signup
Search the articles

Articles Main Categories
Advice
Animals
Automobiles
Business
Career
Communications
Computer Programming
Computers
Entertainment
Environment
Family
Fashion
Finance
Food
Health & Medical
Home & Garden
Humor
Internet Business
Internet Marketing
Legal
Leisure & Recreation
Marketing
Other
Politics
Reference & Education
Religion
Self Improvement
Sports
Technology & Science
Travel
Writing
Subscribe
Receive alert message from us when new articles submitted to our site for free.

Enter your name

Enter your email

Syndicate

















Related Products
Home::Communications

How To Speed Up Your Dial up Connection.

Author : Fabio Marcell
Do you remember the days? Firing up your 200Mhz turbo PowerPC, dialling up using your 56k modem, waiting an age for your hotmail page to show up, waiting some more to check your e-mails only to have your connection die just as you hit the send button! How times change.



It's funny, once you've used broadband you quickly forget how painful the dial up connection was. I used to run my business on dial up and looking back I managed rather well. But these days there's no way I could do without my broadband connection.



There's no doubt about it, broadband is well and truly here to stay. It is of course a logical progression - streaming audio and video demand much higher bandwidth and broadband connections are the only way to achieve anything which is at all usable.



A recent survey revealed that 53% of Americans who use the Internet now use a broadband connection. What they failed to point out is that obviously this means 47% still use a dial up connection. This actually equates to around 60 million people. These kind of statistics are mirrored in other developed countries. When you consider a large chunk of the developing world still uses dial up then you realize that's an awful lot of people still using a slow Internet connection.



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



Well actually yes it is. There are quite a few services online these days allowing you to "accelerate" your dial up connection. These Internet accelerators claim to be able to boost the speed of your dial up connection by as much as six or seven times.



Before you scream with delight at this prospect I feel I should point out right now that these accelerator services are not high speed broadband Internet services. They use a different kind of technology based on the same idea as things like zip files and mp3 files. These files use a compression algorithm to dramatically reduce the file size.



Internet accelerators work in the same way and most providers have also implemented a caching technology whereby they 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 a piece of software sitting on their PC which decompresses the data as it comes in. This is how the dramatic speed increases are achieved.



Many people report excellent success with these systems. Some people are even comparing the accelerators with broadband services



So while this is a really good thing for basic web pages, the technology falls down as soon as you start working with large video or audio files etc. Since an mp3 file is already compressed there's not much more compression that can be done and so the Internet accelerator has little effect. Plus many services have a file size limit meaning they will not even attempt to compress anything as big as a regular pop music mp3 file.



But if you're just loading up normal web pages without too much flash animation and all the other bells and whistles, then I highly recommend you get yourself an accelerated service. If your ISP doesn't offer it there are plenty that do so vote with your feet and check out some of these excellent services.



For more information simply search Google or Yahoo! for the term "dial up accelerator" or something like "speed up my dial up connection". You'll find lots of providers ready to supply you with service.



Some popular services in the USA are NetZero and Earthlink. In the UK you want to be taking a look at someone like Mistral or Onspeed.com


Article Source: http://www.articledashboard.com





Fabio writes for many niches and is an experienced researcher. He has written articles covering a wide range of subjects and enjoys plying his trade especially on the Internet. He is currently sponsoring Ambient Modem News and Blogs and can be reached on fabio@linkz-and.info





Spam emails More free articles

Related articles


  1. Choosing a Communications Designer: A Practical Guide
  2. Net-Centric Warfare Issues – Bandwidth and Security
  3. Honesty is the Best Policy - Especially When It Comes to Dealing with the Press
  4. Communication Is The Difference Between Winning and Losing
  5. Short Live Telecoms' Monopoly
  6. Hindsight is 20/20: The Ultimate Optical Illusion
  7. The Monkey Trap and Communication Problems
  8. What My Neighbour’s Cat taught me About Communication
  9. Instant Messaging – A Powerful Communication Tool for Your Business
  10. Three Ways Flat Rate Conferencing Can Help Grow Your Business
  11. Choosing Calling cards - Points to be Careful
  12. Slash Your Phone Bill in Half Now!
  13. The True Cost Per Minute of Long Distance
  14. Communicate and Prosper!
  15. Great Communicators and the Unspoken Secret
  16. Local Phone Service - Before You Switch Guide
  17. Communicating to Maximize Results
  18. Web Conferencing is a Friend of the Environment
  19. Technology and Coping with Disaster
  20. History of the Telephone -- from Bell to VoIP and Beyond
  21. How Web Conferencing Works -- Exposing the Realities of Virtual Collaboration
  22. History of Web Conferencing -- Multi-function Conferencing Comes of Age
  23. Look ‘Em in the Eyes: The Real Power of Eye Contact
  24. How to Shrink Your Phone Bill
  25. Powerful Communication:Language: The Key that Opens or Closes that Important Door
More related feeds
High Speed Internet Providers Answer Your Need for Speed with DSL
Medium speeds are the lowest priced and are about five times as fast as a dial up connection, which is good for basic email and occasional web surfing. The higher end plans have connection speeds to 25 times and 50 times faster than ...

Finch Formats Web Pages for Slow Internet Connections(Now Dialup ...
If you are browsing the web on a slow dial-up internet connection, there’re a few things you can do to speed up the loading time of web pages. For instance, turn off images, disable the Flash plugin, increase the size of your browser ...

How To Speed Up Your Slow Internet Connection
Well there’s only bad news to be had here because a dial up internet connection snails along at all of 56 kbps (56 kilobits per second) at its maximum speed but usually if your service is via a dial up internet connection the more ...

Free Broadband Internet from Sky - The Offer and the Service — by ...
Why not switch to broadband connection? If your dial-up connection today can provide you 56 kilobits per second, then a broadband connection can provide you up to 16 megabits per second of speed. That’s more than triple faster Internet ...

Broadband Speed Tests - Is There Any Point? — by CAROLINE TELFORD
If the results of the speed test is way off from the download or upload speed that you are expecting from your ISP - then you can call them up to have your Internet connection checked. About the Author: The easiest test you’ll ever take ...

Wireless Broadband: How to Improve the Signal Strength in Your ...
If you have dial-up connection, the speed is not that desirable, you may experience disconnection or congestion problems, and your browsing experience will not be optimized. The opposite is true if you have broadband connection. ...

What you must to know regarding Broadband — by ROBERT BELL
It is believed as a very fast connection. It is an “always-on” type of connection and can transmit data at a much faster rate than your typical dialup connection. Broadband also has the extra benifit of not fixing up your phone line, ...

How to Optimize Your Website For Better Visitor Experience and ...
... but a significant percentage of those Web surfers still use slow speed dial up connection to access the Web. Surfers are known for having a very short attention span and will leave your site before the page finishes loading. ...

Never, ever use Pipex!
Since then I have found my speeds fluctuating between less than dial up right up to the ‘you expect what bloody speed?’ and all for the joys of paying for broadband at £14.99 per month for a whopping 2GB allowance. ...

200 Hacking Tutorials #DataVault, Irc Warez (Ty 4 Moving X).txt ...
Speed Up Internet.txt Speed up menu display.txt Speed up Mozilla FireFox.txt Speed Up Your Bandwidth By 20% !, Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth.txt Speeding up menus in XP.txt Speeding up your internet connection under Linux and ...

 


 

© 2007 articlesreader.com - All Rights Reserved