faster internet

14secvp · #1 13-09-2007, 01:45 AM

ok a while ago i started a thread on dialup internet speed ive now made my internet even faster i have outpost firewall and i noticed that there was a lot of allowed or trusted applications so i turned most of them off apart from the ones i knew what they were man it doubled my page loading speed straight away im wondering if spyware might have been using my connection ive also noticed not so much red outgoing comunications in task manager network monitor and my yahoo messenger hasnt logged out since. the speed is amasing its never been this fast ever a 30 second youtube video comes in quick now 1 or 2 minutes tops

maybe it could help others speed up there surfing

Patrio7 · #2 13-09-2007, 02:07 AM

when's the last time you ran a full spyware scan? ( Adaware / Spybot S+D etc )

14secvp · #3 13-09-2007, 11:08 AM

every day after being on the net

pow3rslave · #4 13-09-2007, 11:20 AM

if you're using firefox, get a plugin called 'fasterfox'

Not_An_Abba_Fan · #5 13-09-2007, 11:34 AM

Dialup is still available???? Oh, I see you are in Un Zud....lol.

AttaBoy · #6 13-09-2007, 12:01 PM

you can get broadband internet for like 20 bucks lol......

ProphetVX · #7 13-09-2007, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by AttaBoy

you can get broadband internet for like 20 bucks lol......

You can get it free with an optus telephone line now haha.

I don't know how people can live off a dialup connection these days, especially considering most pages on the web are graphics intensive, use flash or web 2.0. Pages are slow to load on a 256k adsl connection let alone dialup now.

hingo1983 · #8 13-09-2007, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by ProphetVX

You can get it free with an optus telephone line now haha.

I don't know how people can live off a dialup connection these days, especially considering most pages on the web are graphics intensive, use flash or web 2.0. Pages are slow to load on a 256k adsl connection let alone dialup now.

If you live in the primative newer suburbs of North Canberra, then you can't get it. Hence why I have dial-up.

14secvp · #9 13-09-2007, 04:11 PM

least im not gonna get hacked too fast on dialup i only use firefox for downloading youtube vids to my pc broadband here $29.95 my dialup free looks like ill be dialing for a bit longer yet there are free plans but i would use the free bandwidth in a day and have no net it was probably a program i loaded ages ago wasting my connection i click a page on here now and it jumps straight up so fast now

vlv8vic · #10 13-09-2007, 05:24 PM

only have dial-up here. apart from this site i really only ever have it on for emails (usually never big attachments either) so anything that costs more would be an excess for me.
paying less than $8 month so can't complain for what i need it for.

Patrio7 · #11 14-09-2007, 02:21 AM

meanwhile im fretting that in just less than weeks i've eaten 10 of my 20gb limit >.<

thank goodness of off peak time ^^

MUNTED6 · #12 14-09-2007, 04:22 AM

lol i dont understand wat any of u guys are talking bout. Guess this aint my field

KingDiamond · #13 14-09-2007, 05:56 AM

I would hurt myself if I had dial up.

I download in excess of 50gb of stuff every month, it's great at 8,000kbps

RockyVX · #14 14-09-2007, 08:24 AM

i was going the 8mb, but got stiffed the extra $5 by the wife. only 1.5mb for me

outpost is good, particuarly the newer version, for stopping stuff, but its inbuilt spyware scanner is absolute crap. try superantispyware, that's SUPERAntiSpyware.com - AntiAdware, AntiSpyware, AntiMalware! . there is a free version available, which kills basically everything spyware, malware, etc. having previously been running spybot s&d, adware, avg antispyware, and webroot spysweeper, all simulantiously, i ran super, and picked up another 140 traces, with 30 spyware products installed. Not happy (except with Super!) it would also be a good idea to run Peer Guardian 2, authough bear in mind that if you are trying to visit educational or government websites you would have to turn it off

been having success with things called super lately. Super C video converter, super anti spyware... used to be super ment absolute crap engineered to crash to BSOD. im quite happy for a change

like you said, kingdiamond, i think i would be looking for a bridge if i was back on dialup. although at times i think that many of the servers around are still using it to host pages.

ProphetVX · #15 14-09-2007, 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by KingDiamond

I would hurt myself if I had dial up.

I download in excess of 50gb of stuff every m