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Speed Up Your Dial-Up Connection!
How to Accelerate Your Phone Modem Internet Connection

By Paul Gil, About.com


Because 56 Kilobits Per Second is Too Slow!

September, 2009

If you are like millions of other frustrated users, you are stuck with a phone modem “dialup” connection. Your farm or rural location has no DSL. There is no high speed cable modem in your area. You looked at satellite and infrared transmitter options, but you don’t want to spend thousands of extra dollars each year for that fancy technology.

Right now, all you have is a 56 kilobits-per-second modem, which really only gets you about 40kbps actual speed. And you are frustrated.

So what Internet options are left? What can you do to speed up your dialup Internet connection, short of spending thousands on a satellite connection?

Well, there is a special new dial-up speed choice, and it is a good compromise for the price. No, you won’t get the same 3 megabits-per-second speed of the city folk, but you will get up to 300 kilobits-per-second regularly. It’s called “Dialup Acceleration” , and it’s based on a combination of “compression” and “proxy” technologies.

The Dialup Acceleration option costs about $6 to $10USD per month beyond your current dial-up bill, and is surprisingly easy to install and use.

Next: How “Dialup Acceleration” Works…

Related Diagram: this is a proxy acceleration server network

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