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BlazingFire456
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« on: January 06, 2006, 08:34:14 PM »
I am using the Earthlink accelerator to speed up website loading.  The websites load super fast because of the compression.  However when I actually download a file, it seems the data rate is much slower when accelerator is on.  Usually I download at about 5.5kB/s but with accelerator on it downloads at only like 2-3kB/s.  I know turning it off fixes it, but it gets annoying after a while.  Does anyone know whats up with this?
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« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2006, 08:49:15 PM »
I would assume the file you are downloading is allready compressed, so you have nothing to gain by using the accel.

But you are still stuck with accel overhead.
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« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2006, 11:26:44 AM »
I believe tony is right, acts the same as NetZero I have mine blocked by my firewall from even loading.

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« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2006, 12:09:26 PM »
TRY STAC compression (aka Microsoft Software Compression)

goto Control Panel > Network Connections
in Connection Manager, right click on your Dial-Up connection
and in General (tab) under Connect using: (your modem)
click on Configure and [un-check] Enable modem compress
hit OK
now open Networking (tab) and under Type of dail-up server I am calling:
(PPP;Windows 95/98/NT4/2000,Internet) click on Settings
Enable all three settings, including > Enable software compression
hit OK
and re-boot

This is the BEST compression available, it searches through the data sent to you and looks for repeated information and buffers it so you don't have to download that data again.
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