Hi, i was just wondering if the is a hardware booster or a program to make my dial-up go faster. my mum doesnt want to pay for broadband so im stuck with dial-up any help would be fantastic thanks in advance Corey S

Without knowing what speeds you are getting now there is not a lot that can be said to improve matters. Dial up speeds can vary enormously. If you are getting anything around 48Kbs then you are doing well. There is nothing that will increase the speed limits imposed by the technology. There is software that can give you an apparent increase in speed by caching often visited pages but it has limited use and can often introduce more problems than it solves. Having said that, depending on where you live and how much you use the Internet, what kind of service you are on, flate rate or pay-as-you-go, broadband is no more expensive than dial up, and in some cases can be cheaper. Stuart

Not really - dial-up is and always will be maxed out @56K There are schemes & services, such as this one that employ data compression or use low res graphics and precached content to provide the illusion of a faster connection Broadband isn't necessarily that expensive - many ISPs have a 'lite' version. In my area, actually for a few bucks less than dial-up you can get high speed, but it's 'capped' at 1Gb/month of data transfer (up & down combined) Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie!'... till you can find a rock

http://www.on-speed.com/

Interesting link Dosser but I had OnSpeed on my dial up and could see absolutely no increase in speed despite their claims, complete waste of money. I eventually worked out from my deliberately confusing phone bill that it was costing me on average £14.00/month so wemt broadband for £15.00/month. You pays....... Bob. That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The Atomic bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives. - Admiral William Leahy

Try a TCP settings optimizer - these tweak default TCP setting in Windows to better values and I have found that they help dial-up performance on the web noticably. They help web pages appear faster, your peak data transfer speeds may improve, and they may also improve download speeds. e.g. search the web for: TCPOptimizer Choose Dial-up - Optimal. You only have to run most of these utilities one time - the settings will be retained in the Windows reistry unless you use System Restore to load a previous registry or you re-load Windows.

always liked opera's performance with dail-up,as opposed to the other major browsers. larry