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Posted 16 years ago #
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Theleecher
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http://webaccelerator.google.com/ - It IS back to being available.
The google accelerator is optimized for broadband, with predictive fetching being one feature you should turn off if worried about quota.
Onspeed's primary focus is enhanced compression, and for their maximum claims, I suspect they are comparing with un-optimized connections.
A well tuned dialup connection can make use of "up to" 4:1 compression in the modem, without assistance from other software, in practice, high modem compression is only achived on the easiest material with a predomininance of text or repeated syntax elements. This is why the serial port (or emulated serial port) speed of a modem needs to be considerably higher than the connection speed - 115,200 baud is adequate for 28.8/33.6k connections, but 56k modems need 230,400 baud to avoid any constraint under the best possible conditions.PS. One annoyance with the google accelerator (which MAY have changed), there is a lot of "chatter" between the local client (toolbar) and proxy server components even when idle, which tends to clutter firewall logs. Also, using any form of local proxy makes good firewall configuration difficult, and may leave an unintended outgoing connection route unless "local" connections are treated more securely than they usually are.
Posted 16 years ago # -
Just doing some reading:
How does ONSPEED work
As you cannot physically change the speed of your Internet connection, ONSPEED uses a technology called Content Sensitive Compression ('CSC') to individually compress each element of a web page or email using various compression algorithms based on a patent approved proprietary technology. The end result is that your web pages and emails (PC only) load and download faster using your existing Internet connection.
When your web browser requests a web page, the ONSPEED software redirects that request to the ONSPEED compression servers. They take the respective web page content, compress it and send it back down to the ONSPEED software which decompresses it and sends it to the browser requesting the information.
ONSPEED offers a unique, patented technology called “Advanced Imaging”, enabling you to receive fully viewable and instantly usable web pages, while maintaining the maximum quality of images. Advanced Imaging delivers all images on a page simultaneously. You continue to browse web pages while images are being progressively loaded. Image quality progressively improves until images have reached lossless quality.
ONSPEED’s dedicated algorithms compress the following elements:
Text
HTML objects
Photo-realistic images (e.g. Compressed and uncompressed JPEG, PNG, Compressed and uncompressed GIF, and BMP)
Line art and drawings (e.g. GIF, BMP)
Animated objects (GIF)
Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Macromedia FlashIf a web page or email contains information that is not covered by a dedicated algorithm, ONSPEED will apply a generic compression algorithm to that data element.
Firstly I noticed the site was rated "Red" for "privacy" by WOT. (This is a rating by other users who have used the products/services).
In a nutshell - you install some software that routes all of the data/information you send via THEIR servers. The response data is sent back to you via their servers, which compresses some of the data and sends it onto you where it is uncompressed and displayed.
In my mind the slight and unlikely speed gains are not worth the potential privacy issues through the use of their proxy server.
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