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    Posted: 18 March 2006 at 10:20am
http://www.onspeed.com
 
 
im looking into their solution for speeding up my browsing a bit.. i usually surf through a 128K Dedicated DSL.. well thats what we can have in saudi..within out pocket limits.. 256 costs $290 and 512 costs $480

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Onspeed is meant to be quite good.

All it does is gzip pages which haven't already been gzipped and lower the quality of images. It would probably be easy just to adblock all images and then just view images on pages when you need to
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well i figured it out its not worth much..not atleast the hectic montly fee they are charging..


anyway i have always noticed my ISP DNS servers latency is very high.. so any good preferably free DNS caching softwares out there to run my own dns..

i used simple DNS a while ago from JH soft.. confiogured it to cache the DNS record for 24 hours and viola.. my browser response time for resolution improved a lot

analysing my office ISA server logs today..i notice a lot of traffic being lost to advertisement.. especially those which feature a flash animation..heck some of the flash ad files can be as big as 11MB.. thats a lot.. what a hog on bandwith.. in a few days..im gonna filter the logs and block many advertisment domain.. this should free up some bandwidth and speed up browsing


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They got any bandwidth restrictions?  Looks like an interesting service!
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Quote anyway i have always noticed my ISP DNS servers latency is very high.. so any good preferably free DNS caching softwares out there to run my own dns..

i used simple DNS a while ago from JH soft.. confiogured it to cache the DNS record for 24 hours and viola.. my browser response time for resolution improved a lot

My ISP DNS is also very slow so I have disabled the Windows DNS cache and run a local DNS server instead. The server I use is called Treewalk and is a Windows port of the popular BIND linux DNS.

Quote analysing my office ISA server logs today..i notice a lot of traffic being lost to advertisement.. especially those which feature a flash animation..heck some of the flash ad files can be as big as 11MB.. thats a lot.. what a hog on bandwith.. in a few days..im gonna filter the logs and block many advertisment domain.. this should free up some bandwidth and speed up browsing

Do you use firefox and adblock?

I use the filters from here and the adblock updater so it updates the filters automatically.


The spybot s&d hosts list also blocks out spyware ad sites.
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Never used it myself but have a mate up in Scotland who raves about it.

Theres a few firefox extensions that do pretty much the same thing, lowering the picture quality etc....

Like as what was said before, use an ad block filter to block large ads and you should speed up a bit.
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I don't think it would be possible for a FF extension to lower image quality, you need an intermediatry server to send the compressed files to the client.
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Embarrassed Ooops my mistake i tried looking for the extension and can't find it, maybe i was dreaming lol
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