Would you buy software off this crowd?!!!

snappieT

Stumbled across this as a google ad

http://www.broadband4all.net/

Go on, click on it first.

They want €3.33 a month off people to upgrade their 56k connection to "Broadband Like" speeds! And a worse designed website I have never seen, including the old Power City one... I hate to say it, but LOL.

byte

Hmm, there is a similar advert in today's Sunday Times. It got a "Computer Active" award :rolleyes:

If it was as good as it says it is, we'd have heard a lot more about this.

jimmycrackcorm

It's good for gob****es. How woudl they explain how it could allow you to download a linux distro at broadband speeds over a 56k modem?


Dunny how the link to leave your own comment is an email.

rsynnott

These products are hideously over-sold. That said, they do have some vague value to some people (basically, they'll do a better job of text compression than a modem will and they'll give you the option to reduce image size at cost of quality.) But yep, fairly pointless. Here's a review of one (written when broadband was hideously expensive in the author's country: http://dansdata.com/propel.htm)

Tech Pete

Another Onspeed?

newgrange

I'm so glad they included what people in Roscommon have to say about it - that was the clincher for me.

On the whole speed/performance thing - I downloaded this little prog
http://www.cfos.de/speed/cfosspeed_e.htm
and managed to get myself a freebie by testing it for them. I found it made a great difference when using a number of P2P progs. I'm not a gamer, though I believe gamers say it helps with consistent speeds too.

Has anyone else used it?

jor el

http://www.broadband4all.net/

Woh, that website reads like an ebay sale. I certainly wouldn't buy from a website that is so badly put together.

Are onspeed gone now? onspeed.ie just gives an empty directory listing.

fatherdougalmag

It IS OnSpeed. Go all the way to the end and you'll see the 'Click on banner' message.

Moriarty

Tsk.