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Onspeed broadband alternative

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  • 24-01-2005 12:00am
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    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users Posts: 17,595 ✭✭✭✭


    My parents saw an ad for a service called OnSpeed, www.onspeed.com , and asked me to check it out. It's £24.99 a year, and says that it is five times faster than dialup (our current connection) and needs no hardware installation; it is just a piece of software. To me, it seems kinda dodgy. I don't see how something like this could actually exist.

    Has anyone heard or know anything about them?


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    #2
    Mutant_Fruit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,943 ✭✭✭Mutant_Fruit


    "What impresses us the most about ONSPEED is the high quality of its compression technology."
    All it does is compresses the data, and this will only speed up traffic like web traffic. Downloading those MP3's will still be 56k speed.

    Avoid it like the plague, thats my advice.


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    penexpers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,038 ✭✭✭penexpers


    I know someone who has this and it's alright for the price. Like he said, it only compresses the data, so data that's already compressed (such as jpegs, mp3s etc..) won't be downloaded any faster. But it does definitely speed up web browsing.


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    Moriarty
    Registered Users Posts: 6,007 ✭✭✭Moriarty


    Moved to Nets/Comms, as this isn't anything related to broadband.


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    #5
    Wolff
    Registered Users Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭Wolff


    Have it a week now and its great very fast browsing

    no use for downloads same speed


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