Because 56 Kilobits Per Second is Too Slow!
December, 2008
If you are like millions of other frustrated users, you are stuck with a phone modem dialup connection. Your farm or rural location has no DSL. There is no high speed cable modem in your area. You looked at satellite and infrared transmitter options, but you dont want to spend thousands of extra dollars each year for that fancy technology.
Right now, all you have is a 56 kilobits-per-second modem, which really only gets you about 40kbps actual speed. And you are frustrated.
So what Internet options are left? What can you do to speed up your dialup Internet connection, short of spending thousands on a satellite connection?
Well, there is a special new dial-up speed choice, and it is a good compromise for the price. No, you wont get the same 3 megabits-per-second speed of the city folk, but you will get up to 300 kilobits-per-second regularly. Its called
Dialup Acceleration , and its based on a combination of compression and proxy technologies.
The Dialup Acceleration option costs about $6 to $10USD per month beyond your current dial-up bill, and is surprisingly easy to install and use.
Next: How Dialup Acceleration Works
Related Diagram: this is a proxy acceleration server network