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Anyone knmow of any web accelerators that are good and free?
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DevilDog
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Good? No, all they do is try to cache as much as they can and turn the graphics quality down. You can turn graphics off in your browser if you want to.
I just didn't have a good experience with them. Hopefully you will.
Good luck.
I just didn't have a good experience with them. Hopefully you will.
Good luck.
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Well, you probably already know of this utility; it's not a "web accelerator" per se, its a simple registry tweaker that does improve your speed by a considerable and definately noticable amount.
CableNut It's a great little proggie!
CableNut It's a great little proggie!
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Quote:
Yeah these things do absoutley nothing except cache tons of data.
They prey on the average Joe Sixpack that doesnt do anything but visit the same few sites and who doesnt know jack about computers
If you want to do the same thing that these web accelerators do, increase the Internet Explorer cache:
Directions
At the top click Tools
In the middle of that screen under Temp internet files click settings
Double the amount of diskspace used (if you have enough free space on your hard drive)
Congrats, you just bought a web acceleator, lol
| Originally Posted by DevilDog Good? No, all they do is try to cache as much as they can and turn the graphics quality down. You can turn graphics off in your browser if you want to. I just didn't have a good experience with them. Hopefully you will. Good luck. |
Yeah these things do absoutley nothing except cache tons of data.
They prey on the average Joe Sixpack that doesnt do anything but visit the same few sites and who doesnt know jack about computers
If you want to do the same thing that these web accelerators do, increase the Internet Explorer cache:
Directions
At the top click Tools
In the middle of that screen under Temp internet files click settings
Double the amount of diskspace used (if you have enough free space on your hard drive)
Congrats, you just bought a web acceleator, lol
skyskraper
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firefox users should try this its not software just a few settings you change that speed up browsing. me rikey.
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Skyscraper that tweak really works, damn the pages are flying off my screen now. TNX
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I suspect many of the free web accelerators may double as spyware. If all they do is increase the web cache, its practically useless. That cache will just eat up more ram and drive space.
holy crap! it loads so much faster now.
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Web acclerators? It's called broadband
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I have a 10 Mbit connection and the pages always loaded so quickly but after the firefox tweak they just appear on my screen, ZERO delay. Dang...so sweet.
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One of the most effective web-accelerators is Lynx: http://lynx.browser.org/
Loads any page you want really fast. Kind of aesthetically challenged though
Loads any page you want really fast. Kind of aesthetically challenged though
skyskraper
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gld u guys like it! i was surprised with the difference it made even on 512 kbs adsl!
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