At 10:03 p.m. 08/01/00 -0600, you wrote:>
know of webcelerator that is homepageware, but I have had
>trouble with it and have heard nothing but bad things about it. Are there
>any others?
HI,
I have tried webcelerator and never had a problem with it (except from that as
I access only a few pages I never accessed their webpage so it set to idle).
Now I am using Netsonic. It is much easier to set up (you do not have to enter
any proxy information in the browser).� It comes as a freeware (a little ad
bar
appears, it is of the size of the browser top where the title of the page
appears -the head title, not the body). There is a paid version too.
<http://www.web3000.com/redir/upgrade_bulletin.asp>http://www.web3000.com/r
edir/upgrade_bulletin.asp
If you do not agree with prefetching you can set if off and still use the
other
functions.
The new version (which I do not have) claims to:
Now with New Exciting NetSonic-Gator Features! Accelerates Web form filling
Accelerates login names & passwords entries. Other New Features: Site
Exclusion
Offline Browsing Customized cache location
If you do not like these cache programs you can just use a MTU tweak program
like Hagai�s Boost which� is easy to use and it aslso comes with detailed
information about MTU
<http://hagai.8m.com/>http://hagai.8m.com (maybe the new address is
<http://www.hagai.com/>www.hagai.com)
You can also try selective� image filtering with Webwasher (free). It can wok
together with netsonic. Is is like a proxy:
<http://www.webwasher.com/>www.webwasher.com
Another free proxy (more complicated to set up but a small download)� is at
<http://www.junkbusters.com/>www.junkbusters.com
I have also tried Opera as Alan recommends. Remember Opera does not support
Java (or did not till v.3.51). The Sun plugin is 7 megs.
<http://www.opera.nta.no/>www.opera.nta.no
This page may be of interest:
MSN's Computing Central have created a free, online Bandwith Speed Test at
<A HREF="http://computingcentral.msn.com/topics/bandwidth/speedtest.asp">
plus it has information on connecton speed
