Web Accelorator Software
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Hello,
No. Web Accelorator software is a myth. All it really does is create multiple connections to a site and while that does it help, it also causes more trouble for everyone else. Cause it takes the DNS Servers for your ISP by have more connections going thru every time and such things like that. It taxes the site you are going to server cause it has so many more requests to fill.
In the end if you have Fasterfox on you are doing the same things as a Web Accelorator. They are a myth. They do not really serve any real purpose. Which thye give the illusion that they do. People think they get faster speeds when they dont. You will only get what the max is on your DSL and only get 56K on a Dialup. No more.
Cheers,
Mak
No. Web Accelorator software is a myth. All it really does is create multiple connections to a site and while that does it help, it also causes more trouble for everyone else. Cause it takes the DNS Servers for your ISP by have more connections going thru every time and such things like that. It taxes the site you are going to server cause it has so many more requests to fill.
In the end if you have Fasterfox on you are doing the same things as a Web Accelorator. They are a myth. They do not really serve any real purpose. Which thye give the illusion that they do. People think they get faster speeds when they dont. You will only get what the max is on your DSL and only get 56K on a Dialup. No more.
Cheers,
Mak
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Assuming that you're not talking about download accelerators, there are some web accelerators that work differently than what Mak213 explained. Those accelerators mainly do 2 things.
1. They have a way to more intelligently cache images and website data onto your local hard drive. So the first time you load a page it's normal speed, but from then on, it loads the pages from your hard drive, which gives you speed increases. The software is supposed to recognize when a page has changed and only download the changed part. In my experience, it doesn't work and you never see the changes. It just keeps loading the same data from your hard drive over and over. It's horrible for dynamic pages like news and weather reports, or pretty much anything else.
2. The software looks at all of the links on a page and starts pre-fetching the info from those pages because it thinks you might click those links. So when you actually click one, it has already loaded part of the page. This is also ridiculous because it unnecessarily wastes a lot of bandwidth.
These web accelerators are worthless. At first, it appears that you are getting major speed boosts, but it doesn't take long to see through the facade and realize the huge flaws. But to answer your question, yes you can use them with DSL, but they're worthless, and the difference won't be very noticeable with DSL anyway.
1. They have a way to more intelligently cache images and website data onto your local hard drive. So the first time you load a page it's normal speed, but from then on, it loads the pages from your hard drive, which gives you speed increases. The software is supposed to recognize when a page has changed and only download the changed part. In my experience, it doesn't work and you never see the changes. It just keeps loading the same data from your hard drive over and over. It's horrible for dynamic pages like news and weather reports, or pretty much anything else.
2. The software looks at all of the links on a page and starts pre-fetching the info from those pages because it thinks you might click those links. So when you actually click one, it has already loaded part of the page. This is also ridiculous because it unnecessarily wastes a lot of bandwidth.
These web accelerators are worthless. At first, it appears that you are getting major speed boosts, but it doesn't take long to see through the facade and realize the huge flaws. But to answer your question, yes you can use them with DSL, but they're worthless, and the difference won't be very noticeable with DSL anyway.
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