anyone tried onspeed
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Topic: anyone tried onspeed
Posted By: the boss
Subject: anyone tried onspeed
Date Posted: 18 March 2006 at 10:20am
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http://www.onspeed.com - 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 ------------- http://www.web2messenger.com/theboss"> 
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Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 18 March 2006 at 4:03pm
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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 |
Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 18 March 2006 at 5:17pm
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well i figured it out its not worth much..not atleast the hectic montly fee they are charging..
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 ------------- http://www.web2messenger.com/theboss">
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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 18 March 2006 at 5:44pm
| They got any bandwidth restrictions? Looks like an interesting service! |
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 18 March 2006 at 6:00pm
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 http://ntcanuck.com/ - Treewalk and is a Windows port of the popular BIND linux DNS.
Do you use firefox and adblock? I use the filters from http://www.pierceive.com/ - here and the adblock updater so it updates the filters automatically. The spybot s&d hosts list also blocks out spyware ad sites. |
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..
Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 18 March 2006 at 6:33pm
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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. ------------- Handyman man? |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 18 March 2006 at 10:03pm
| 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. |
Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 18 March 2006 at 10:50pm
 Ooops my mistake i tried looking for the extension and can't find it, maybe i was dreaming lol
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Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 9:50pm
Firefox extensions are capable of saving to disk, so it should be "possible"... But there is rarely any reason to compress images as they are usually compressed well. You're right about needing an intermediary to do it, but it can't really be automated as image quality is subjective and changes could be disastrous. Imagine reducing file size for a 256 color GIF that illustrates a color pallete... Images, audio, and video are bad subjects for automated recompression unless it is lossless, which isn't common anyways (except for LZH & ZIP (deflate, etc.)) and still takes too much CPU, especially at high compression ratios. ------------- http://renegademinds.com/" rel="nofollow - Renegade Minds - Guitar Software http://renegademinds.com/Default.aspx?tabid=65" rel="nofollow - Slow Down Music |