My two steps to Faster Dial-Up...

After months of sluggish dialup internet service, I decided to try to improve things, on my end.

The first step I took, was to install System Mechanic from www.iolo.com... on my system. They have a nifty little feature that optimizes your internet speed. There is a test feature you can use before and after, to compare the difference. With one click of a mouse button, my actual throughput increased from a measely 13 kb per second to just over 20.

I know that even that is'nt great, but it's better than what I had previously.

The second step I took was to switch my browser to Mozilla Firefox. www.mozilla.com... I had tried it once before, but did'nt really give it a chance, and switched back to IE.





The third step (which happened to coincide with the above), I can take no credit for. Of course I am talking about the recent and still continuing changes to the interface here on ATS.

Three more cheers, to S.O. for that!

And now, when I refrsh, it's zip, zip, zip, and it's all loaded!! Before it would take literally minutes to load!


Now, I'm a happy camper!

Mechanic is dead on about firefox. I am still stubborn from time to time and remain with IE, but Firefox is much faster I find. Time to time I find myself getting Page can not be displayed which has me gritting my teeth to no end.

To all those stubborn IE fanatics like I was, give Mozilla a chance. I was impressed.

What really did it though, was the tweaks applied by System Mechanic. Of course there are many other features to that program, also.

Yeah FireFox is not going to make your connection faster, but it will enhance your browing abilities. Which is just as important really.