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krizon

krizon

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"10x Internet speed increase for only £24.99 a YEAR, new improved ONSPEED will transform any Dial-Up or Broadband connection."

Well, that's what the ad in the Radio Times tell me. You buy ONSPEED and your dial-up fair whizzes into near b/b territory at 300kbps, and your b/b goes supernova with five times its normal speed.

Onspeed says it works anywhere in the world (for laptoppers) and that the latest version offers 'a massive step forward in terms of performance... is perfectly optimised for Broadband'.

I do like things which are perfectly optimised, as any red-blooded woman would, and £24.99 a year is barely the cost of a pair of trousers from Chums, but I hate things which promise much and fail to deliver what they say. So, my dear leedle forum cherms, have any of you optimised your systems, and was it perfectly or imperfectly, with Onspeed?
 
It won't actually make your internet faster in a physical sense, but it compresses the data and of a webpage or email and shrinks it in size before sending it to its destination making it faster to send. However, I've read many flaws and like broadband speed claims, it will never be the exact speed it claims.

£24.99 is a good deal for what it says on the box, but I'd rather stick with broadband.
 
It would be useless for downloading music and/or video content, which are already compressed to within an inch of their life.
 
Cheers, chaps, for that. I don't download music or films at the moment, though - the very thought is frightening enough!
 
Krizon

I used this a while back when my broadband was down, to be honest I didn't notice any 10x speed improvements, once i got my broadband back I let the father in law use it, he stopped using it before the subscription ran out as he said it didn't really do much.
 
Oh - that doesn't sound like it's worth the hassle, Craig. Thanks for that. I'm very wary of doing ANYTHING because I don't understand what to do when it inevitably goes wrong, or cocks up some other function. (It's usually down to me pressing the wrong key at some point!) I think I'll let the old Compaq stay as it is. Waiting for the blue screen and the 'Welcome' message to push off is a bit tiresome, but it's a whole load better than Dial-Up! Thanks again. :)
 
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