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As a few of ya might know, I'm one of the poor basterds with dial up (We dont have Dsl available in my area yet, and live in a woods of oak trees, so that rules out Satallite as well) so anyway, I currently have Msn where I sign in at anywhere from 40-44kbps. Its allright as far as dial up goes I guess, but then I saw this commercial for the NetZero 3g. it says "Your dial up will be so fast youll think your on dsl". I had there netzero ultra or whatever it was before, and yeah it was a little faster, but all the images were distorted (they sacraficed image for speed) so I was wondering if anyone had it or was computer savy to know if this would be the same or would actually be quality speed? ANy help would be appriciated. Thanks fellas
 
I think they are just bullshiting.

Dial up is dial up.

I may be wrong though, I never tried it.
 
you can only go as fast as the modem and they have only been able to push 56k out of a modem so no i dont think you can get anything better from them
 
Personal experience with Netzero/Netscape/any that use funky accellerators; STAY THE HECK AWAY FROM IT!!!!

Their software uses a funky LAN/proxy server emulation that BARELY works, and chokes your connection severely. Especially if you play web games, like MSN's Zone games.

What the advertisment doesn't tell you is the higher speed only applies to images (they get downsampled on their end and interpolated on yours) and text (it gets compressed simular to a .zip file, then decompressed on your side).

The best way to describe it is;

internet -> compressing proxy server -> LAN emulator -> diallup connection -> LAN emulator -> your internet programs

It's a great concept in theory, but, it's crap in practice. On top of all of that, the setup is junk too. They give you a downloader/dialler, and you are forced to download ~9 megs, instead of how AOL does it (they at least give you the whole setup on the disc, and allow you to download the updates seperate of internet time).

I spend roughly 15-20 hours a week working on these 'accelerated' internet services, getting them to acceptable rates (adjusting modem init strings, com port baud rates, etc). Trust me, you are FAR better off sticking with plain dialup than going with an accellerated service.

(and I didn't even get to their email client... they force you to use a rather crappy email client, instead of allowing you the choice of outlook, etc)

edit; I failed to mention that the proxy servers on their sides are down more often than not.
 
well as a last straw you could get two internet accounts & two modums oh yeah & two telephone lines and shotgun the modems to get like 90 kbps LOL
 

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