web accelerators

busdriverwillie · 01-13-2005, 04:13 PM

Do web accelerators really work? How much faster is your internet?

willsko87 · 01-13-2005, 10:14 PM

beedubaya · 01-13-2005, 10:18 PM

My experience: They work on some broadband connections, depending on how its capped and how the caching server is set up. It does not work on dial-up.

majistic · 01-15-2005, 08:56 PM

No web accelerators do not work at all. Beedubaya believes they do and thats an opinion and ok, but I can tell you they dont.

beedubaya · 01-15-2005, 09:04 PM

It depends on your connection. On some broadband connections, they work, and others they don't. I do know they sped my downloads from 30K to 120K when I had my 256K wireless.

bigbmxdave · 01-27-2005, 05:11 PM

Im not expert on the subjet but web accelators work on the principal that while you are reading the contents of one page on the internet, the program is using that time to download the content of pages which have links on the page you are reading, that way when you finish reading your page and click on another page you dont need to wait for it to download as it has already done so.
So really if you have broadband they are worthless.

majistic · 02-21-2005, 10:52 PM

Ok, this is an old topic but let me say again.....web accelerators do NOT work...

01-13-2005, 04:13 PM	#1 (permalink)
busdriverwillie Newb Techie Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 28	web accelerators Do web accelerators really work? How much faster is your internet?

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01-13-2005, 10:18 PM	#3 (permalink)
beedubaya Lord Techie Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 5,235	My experience: They work on some broadband connections, depending on how its capped and how the caching server is set up. It does not work on dial-up. __________________ ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard AMD Opteron 165 @ 2.25GHz 2GB G.Skill Extreme PC4000 RAM Leadtek Winfast GeForce 7800GT Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi "I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully" - George W. Bush

01-15-2005, 08:56 PM	#4 (permalink)
majistic Monster Techie Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 1,389	No web accelerators do not work at all. Beedubaya believes they do and thats an opinion and ok, but I can tell you they dont. __________________ MSI NEO2 PLAT//A64 3500+//4x512 OCZ Gold PC3200//6800GT//2 WD 320GB HDD//NEC DVD+-RW//

01-15-2005, 09:04 PM	#5 (permalink)
beedubaya Lord Techie Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 5,235	It depends on your connection. On some broadband connections, they work, and others they don't. I do know they sped my downloads from 30K to 120K when I had my 256K wireless. __________________ ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard AMD Opteron 165 @ 2.25GHz 2GB G.Skill Extreme PC4000 RAM Leadtek Winfast GeForce 7800GT Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi "I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully" - George W. Bush

01-27-2005, 05:11 PM	#6 (permalink)
bigbmxdave True Techie Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 240	Im not expert on the subjet but web accelators work on the principal that while you are reading the contents of one page on the internet, the program is using that time to download the content of pages which have links on the page you are reading, that way when you finish reading your page and click on another page you dont need to wait for it to download as it has already done so. So really if you have broadband they are worthless. __________________ Cure for Boredom

02-21-2005, 10:52 PM	#7 (permalink)
majistic Monster Techie Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 1,389	Ok, this is an old topic but let me say again.....web accelerators do NOT work... __________________ MSI NEO2 PLAT//A64 3500+//4x512 OCZ Gold PC3200//6800GT//2 WD 320GB HDD//NEC DVD+-RW//

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