Onspeed

Rapide561

Hi

I am interested in the ONspeed product.

I am using the wireless connection and it runs at about 236 what ever they are.

Would I be better with Onspeed and will it work as I am overseas?

Thanks

Russell

JimM

All I can say is that I used onspeed while I was on dial-up and only gave up when I got broadband although it is supposed to work just as well with either
and I must admit I if I was not happy with broadband speed I would not hesitate to reinstall onspeed.
If I remember rightly it basically compresses the files at source so cuts down the amount of data to send so reducing the time to download
(Remember that is all it increases the download speed)
it can not increase jpeg downloads as they are already compressed
so if you download a lot of pic`s you may not see a great difference

Rapide561

Hi

But presumably, pages like this would open faster?

Russell

JimM

Hi Russ if I remember right they did
One thing I forgot to say if you turn the compression up to far it can distort images ( you can vary the compression/speed )

baldlygo

I think Onspeed is wonderful if you are using a low speed connection and/or are limited to a certain number of Mbits/Gbits.

With regard to higher speed on higher speed connections I'm not convinced that it improves on my BT 2M broadband. The Onspeed stats claim an increase in x4 speed but this is deceiving since you can see they purely judge this by dividing bytes you would have downloaded by the bytes actually downloaded - with my settings this means I only download a quarter of the 'normal' data.

I also have Onspeed installed on my ipaq PDA but I have not been away yet to put it through it's paces - but I expect it to make a big difference in speed.

So with your 236K speed Russell I would not know whether you would actually see an increase but you would drastically reduce your data. The speed would also depend on what you are doing. Browsing sees the best savings but if you are downloading compressed data (e.g. music or software) then Onspeed has no effect.

I understand that the speed would also depend on the route to the nearest Onspeed server and I have no idea where these are based.

So unless anybody else is using Onspeed near Montiga del Garda it might be up to you Russell to answer your query Very Happy

Paul

ianhibs

Russell

I'm sure that Onspeed woold help you but here's a quick tip you can try this morning.

In Internet Explorer go to Tools and then Internet Options. Click on the Advanced tab and then scroll down and unclick the box marked "show pictures". Click on apply and then OK. Go to another web site and then back to this one. See how much faster it loads. Great if all you want is info.

Ian

baldlygo

ianhibs

And by the way - do you have a digital camera with you. If so, how about a quick picture of the view from your van. Just add it as an attachment to your post.

Cheers

Ian

PS. You'll have to turn pictures on again if you want to see that it's worked.

artona · Moderator

Hi Russell

Onspeed will definitely work and will be beneficial to you. Wurz recommended it to me and she was using a 3G card at 340 ish speed.

I use it with dial up and it definitely speeds things up.

Go to the onspeed site and download it. Pay you £25 and create your account. Then forget about it but do not forget your user name and password.

Every time you connect to the internet Onspeed will then wake up automatically and switch on.

I am sure that it will not make any difference that you are in Italy but do check there website.

The other thing that will speed things up is downloading Firefox. Use firefox instead of internet explorer, it is just so much faster

stew