On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:06:18 -0400, NRen2k5 wrote:

Brad wrote:
How does an "accelerator" work for dial-up connections to make
transfers faster?

By reading sites through a proxy run by the makers of the program, which
compresses everything (including the images, at a loss) so that it all
takes less bandwidth.snip

Dial-up "accelerators" are a ripoff and generally only speed up simple
text and other really simply compressed stuff. JPEGS and MPEGS will
get squashed and corrupted. Useless for modern web sites, etc. Net
Zero is trying to make a bundle off their "accelerator" service. It
is a complete sham. So is "Earthfink." Why bother with a ripoff
accelerator, when Verizon (in some markets) is now offering ADSL (not
that good...768 Kb/s tops) for $9.95/mo.? Even ADSL can beat any
"accelerator" and frees up a phone line.