Re: Speed up dialin connection via proxy?

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Date: 01/15/05

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To: "Chris" <racerx@makeworld.com>

    > Timothy Luoma wrote:
    >>
    >> I cannot get high speed internet access at home. In fact, I can't get
    >> more than about 26400 on my dialup.
    >
    > That sux

    Yup, especially after several years of having cable access @ our previous
    house/apartment.

    >> Anything else I could do to speed things up?
    >
    > ISDN? Direct TV? Cable? DSL?

    DSL = too far from the local hub

    ISDN = doubtful

    Cable = possibly this fall. Our cable company was bought by a new company
    which says that it is dedicated to expanding rural coverage (it ends about
    a mile from our house, I think).

    DirecTV = Had DirecWay installed for less than a month. They wanted
    $60/month, a Windows OS, no wireless (I understand that they have since
    come out with a way to overcome those two limitations).. but the bottom
    line is that it was really not much faster than dialup for regular
    browsing. For downloading a file, yes; but when you went somewhere like
    Amazon.com with a lot of images and other external files, it really slowed
    down (this was 2 way satellite, no phone line. We had it uninstalled
    before 30 days so we could get our money back ... except the $180
    installation fee :-/

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