<p>I just moved into my dorm and the university offers dial-up internet access. I was looking for an accelerator to boost my speed but could not find any. </p>
<p>Does anyone know any accelerators that are good to use?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>are you serious? dial-up at a school?</p>
<p>i figured by now all schools had high-speed internet which you could connect to via ethernet ports. in fact a lot of schools are making schools are setting up wifi through their campus to give internet/network access to the students.</p>
<p>i don’t know of any programs. good luck with that.</p>
<p>Where do you go to school? Even the amish have high-speed internet.</p>
<p>Even if you have an accelerator, it’s not gonna do much, since the physical medium of transmission (a narrow-band phone line) just doesn’t support much beyond a 56K.</p>
<p>If you’re school really doesn’t offer high speed internet, either for free or for a fee, do they offer cable TV? If you really want a high speed connection, look into getting cable internet from the cable TV provider.</p>
<p>A dial-up “internet accelerator” just compresses things like images, lowering their quality. As SBR said, it’s worthless, as it won’t help with downloads or any of the many streaming services that compose the internet nowadays.</p>
<p>Some accelerators like Google’s actually reroute you to their cache of the website, so you are basically surfing on a world wide web they have created, and is probably a day or two in the past because they have to crawl the web to update their cache. In addition, these accelerators don’t work with forums such as CC- you’d be looking at this forum from someone else’s account, and would not have previleges to post and such (since you aren’t that person), rendering online discussions useless</p>
<p>I was an EarthLink technical support agent over the summer, and let me tell you…EarthLink’s accelerator is an absolute joke. The only time it truly decreases speed is when you are looking at pictures, and it does this by lowering the quality of the pictures. It’s a piece of crap, just like much of EarthLinks software is. (you didn’t hear this from from me)</p>
<p>IMO, if you are going to get dial up… it’s best to go with the uber cheap companies like peoplePC. The reason they’re cheaper is that they don’t offer free tech support – so don’t be an idiot and save money.</p>
<p>No wifi? (10 chars)</p>
<p>Not all dial-up internet accelerators work that way. There are accelerators that analyze the page you are viewing, visit all the links, and download all the pages that are linked from that page while you are viewing it (and the internet connection is presumably idle) That way, when you click a link, the page is already downloaded for you.</p>
<p>They have high speed but only in the lobby and the library. Also they have that Wifi stuff, but I do not know how to set that up.</p>
<p>Also the only way to get high speed DSL is to live in the university apartments.</p>
<p>Use wifi, there should be pages to help you setup on the uni’s IT office website, if not, you can always walk-in/call them for help.</p>
<p>okay I will try that</p>
<p>omg dial-up? people still use that?</p>
<p>I nearly fell off my bed after reading this. Dial up?! Even DSL for a school?!</p>
<p>Man, my school is rocking T3 I believe with a completely wi-fi’d campus excluding the rooms, which ain’t bad because the ethernet ports are faster anyway.</p>
<p>even a T3 is quite slow. and not really up to the task of running a school./</p>
<p>My school has a monster connection which is on Internet 2. Maybe because its a huge school.</p>
<p>your school probably has multiple T3s…</p>
<p>my schools has fiber optics, and the campus is also wireless, though obviously when you plug in it’s faster.</p>
<p>T3 is one of the slowest type of internet connections.</p>
<p>There are DS-* and OC-* lines</p>
<p>Most schools have OC-* lines, the majority of big name universities like mine, are connected thogh major networks that are capable of almost instant data transfer.</p>