can you speed up dial-up downloading

[rhodeye]

My friend has a dial-up connection with an accelerator but it still can't download streamers and even short videos in an acceptable amount of time. It keeps him from seeing any of the online streamers and videos. The games are the same way when downloading. I can't believe this linitation has to be, especially since he has a modern computer. Isn't there anything he can do about it? He paid 6 months in advance for his enternet connection and if he cancels it to get cable he still has to pay the full 6 months. Thank you

[KevinT]

Well dial up connections are relatively slow. I used to use AOL as my ISP. It really represents the quote, "you get what you paid for."

[rhodeye]

Yea, I know dial ups are slower but having to wait a few minutes of downloading for only 10 seconds of the video doesn't seem right. Especially with a modern computer.

[Spider]

Especially with a modern computer.
The computer has nothing to do with it. It's the available bandwidth and the amount of data that can travel
to the computer through the telephone line on a dial-up feed.

To use an analogy...

Your friend bought a lawn mower engine and they want to know why they can't win the Indy 500.
He/She needs a faster engine.

or

How fast can I drink a chocolate milkshake though one straw.
Now how fast can I drink a chocolate milkshake if I put 10 straws in there.
If he/she has one straw then there is nothing you can do to mimic 10 straws.

[Name:]

My friend has a dial-up connection with an accelerator but it still can't download streamers and even short videos in an acceptable amount of time...
I would like to point out that an accelerator only really improves the speed that plain text is transmitted. There will be little to no speed increase with streaming audio or video though.

[Cyber Punk]

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[Murray S.]

Howdy:

Cyber Punk: A little research first would have shown you that QoS is only available from Win200 up. This is for a WinME system. :happy:

Murray

[Cyber Punk]

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[Murray S.]

You're right, but he has not mentioned which OS he's on.
Or has he :S?

Did you bother checking the forum the question was posed in?

Murray

[Cyber Punk]

Apologies, posts edited.

[rhodeye]

Thanks for your answers. My friend just has to wait or go to a cable connection and forfeit the 6 month fee.

[JoJo Gunn]

I've never seen an "accelerator" make any difference in all my seven years of computing. If you pay for it, you're being scammed, plain and simple.

[rhodeye]

My friend's not being scammed. He agreed to pay for 6 months in advance for the dial up service (he probably got a discount that way) before he realized he couldn't get the videos downloaded nearly fast enough.

[JoJo Gunn]

No, the scam isn't in dial-up service itself. The scam is in the claims that you'll get something much faster than normal. If your friend is paying extra for an "accelerator", beyond the basic monthly price of dial-up service, then yes, he's getting rooked.

You can only push so much "water" through a certain size of pipe (modem).

[Name:]

Well, dialup acceleration does work on web pages, but not really any speed increase with downloading anything else. So if you're just browsing the web, the acceleration could be worth the extra. However it's not necessary if you download more than you browse.

[JoJo Gunn]

Name, in my experience, it doesn't do anything for you as long as a site has been loaded into the cache to begin with. Newly visited sites are just as slow to load with or without an "accelerator".

Save your money.