Re: Anyone using OnSpeed with The Bat!?
Last time I was away, it cost me 640 GBP in telephone costs to keep my clients websites maintained and to access email. A Hmmm... why not a laptop with a local ISP sub? That's about decade's worth of A dial-up in the US (Netscape $ US 9.95/Mo, 5 GBP after conversion?)! Can't be A that much more expensive in Canada. I've been using Gric for a long time now. It's a roaming service that seems to partner with a lot of UK ISPs. Download the latest list of dial-up numbers before you leave, then when you tell it your new location it will show all available local numbers. Your regular ISP logon will work on the partnered systems. However, recently I've found that hotel broadband for about $10 US /day is a good bet. Even better, I never seem to be far away from an unsecured WiFi connection which I use for my POPs that support secure communications. Apple stores are also a great place to connect for free - although I feel the need to boot into Linux at the time so as not to be too rude ;-) -- Nick TheBat! v3.0.1.33 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Anyone using OnSpeed with The Bat!?
Hi admin, On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, at 15:36:18 [GMT+] (which was Mon, 2:36:18 Australian Eastern Time) you wrote: Anyone using OnSpeed with The Bat!? Sounds like a scam. Does it really work? -- John Phillips, Sydney, Australia Using The Bat! v3.0.1.33 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 ... New Mail not found. Executing Blame Sysop Sequence.. Winamp currently playing: Nothing! Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Anyone using OnSpeed with The Bat!?
Hello Marten everyone else, on 16-Jan-2005 at 16:36 you wrote: Anyone using OnSpeed with The Bat!? Any problems? If I understand their concept correctly its some sort of a compressing proxy. They're retrieving the page for you with (their) fast connection, compress the contents and send you the compressed version to your (slow) connection, and the content will be decompressed locally - is that correct so far? If it is... how would this work for email? You'd have to retrieve your mail thru the OnSpeed servers. I certainly wouldn't want to do that, they'd have to log in to *my* mailbox and retrieve the data for me and compress it. And, while it may work for normal web pages, graphics and other already compressed data won't benefit a freaking lot from this. If you're on a modem dialup line, the modem will use hardware compression (called v.42bis) anyway (but this is only a run-length compression algorhythm, and thus it will not be as efficient as anything in .zip style compression, of course). If you're on an ISDN line, many internet providers already provide access with the Windows softcompression technique. I'd like to see a few independent tests OnThis. :-) -- Best regards, Alexander (http://www.neurowerx.de - ICQ 238153981) Progress isn't always for the best. Smoke signals never got an Indian out of bed at 3:AM to answer a wrong number. -- Mack McGinnis Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Anyone using OnSpeed with The Bat!?
Sunday, January 16, 2005, Alexander S. Kunz wrote: I'd like to see a few independent tests OnThis. :-) Jack Schofield's look at OnSpeed in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/insideit/story/0,13270,1128097,00.html seems to deal with both the bads and the goods. -- Urban Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn when the apples are falling off the trees. Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
