rikytheripster Posted June 30, 2005 Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 It is ment to improve your internet speed considerably by using special compression software or something. Anyone know if it works and how well? more info can be found at www.onspeed.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdea Posted July 1, 2005 Report Share Posted July 1, 2005 what it does is strip down jpg gif files among other things AOL, earthlink and a few other ISPs offer software like this included with your subscription all they do is reduce the quality of the media you are seeing by using lossy compression I used to use the one that earthlink provides, it made no real difference except on pages that make heavy use of gif and jpg images and most of those still take ages because the worst pages are from the bone heads that save large photos in gif, bmp or tif with sites that use allot of flash this does you no good I would also be weary of anything that sends everything I look at to a server somewhere then redirects it to me, in other words I would read the UELA very carefully for language that says they are selling your browsing habits to advertisers and all that crazy stuff give it a shot and see what you think, it might be better than the software I used Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTA2R Posted July 1, 2005 Report Share Posted July 1, 2005 "all they do is reduce the quality of the media you are seeing by using lossy compression" yes and no. i have seen much of the confidential paperwork on one of these applications (I'm involved in supporting it), some facets are much more complex then what you said in your above statement, yet your statement does (or may) comprise a part of the application. end users are able to control some settings too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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