Faster Dial Up: Like Onspeed In The UK?
Feb 19, 2005
I currently use a UK dial up connection with Connectfree to access the internet; generally without any problems. There now appear to be a number of "faster dial up" applications available (all at a cost of course) that claim to enhance speeds on average by a factor of X5. For example - Onspeed in the UK. Does anyone have any experience of any of these applications or know of any similar applications that are free. At the end of the day, I assume it is only a packet compression tool?
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Feb 15, 2005
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Aug 16, 2005
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Nov 8, 2007
At present I connect to my broadband ISP using a wireless router. So that I can keep a previous email address active I need to log on to an old Pay As You Go dial up connection at least once every 60 days . I have set up the the connection in 'Network connection' in the control panel but get the error " no dial tone " when i try to use it, Should i be disconnecting the router and plugging in the phone cable to the PC directly as we did in pre broadband, dial up only days . Advise please on how to best ' cable ' the set up
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I just cleared the temp files, and removed some unnecessary programs that load up at bootup Is ther ea program or another way to get my computer up to speed?
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My OS is Windows XP Service Pack 2 and my CPU is 3.2 gig, a memory of 1 gig ddr. I'm trying to look for a software to boot my PC faster. I've tried Microsoft Bootvis but didn't improve the the cold booting and rebooting. Anybody knows what's the best way to improve the performance of my machine.
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I just reinstalled xp and all the drivers for my comp and updated to sp3, so i was wondering if there is something i can get rid of or turn off that can make my system run faster because pc 2700 ram dont come cheap I have a compaq presario V2565, with an AMD Turion 64 1.8GHz, ATI Radeon Xpress 200M AGP, and 512Mb of ram.
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Dec 11, 2005
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Apr 14, 2007
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Oct 1, 2006
Seems like this would be a common question, but I didn't find it anywhere. Feel free to refer me to an appropriate post if there is one.My old laptop bit the dust, and I've got a loaner. It's very low on memory and everything is just really slow. The obvious solution is to add more memory but I won't be able to do that for awhile. In the meantime, is there anything I can do to increase this computer's performance? I searched online and found a lot of hype about disabling services, but upon further research it seems like that won't actually help, with the possible exception of turning off Themes or indexing.I don't run anything fancy on this computer, mostly Firefox, Thunderbird, that sort of thing. It's an Hp Pavillion ze5600 running Windows XP.Keep in mind that I know more about computers than the average office worker, but only slightly. I appreciate any suggestions you have. I have done things like disk cleanup, defrag, virus and spyware scans, and getting unnecessary programs out of the startup, but that is about the extent of my knowledge.
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Sep 29, 2005
I realise you've already seen a few queries on this, but I can't find
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connected it to my PC saying that it could transfer faster, but it no
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Jun 21, 2005
I have a 10,000 RPM HDD attached to my computer by using USB port. Do I loose any HDD speed? Is IDE HDD faster than USB HDDs?
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Dec 9, 2005
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Sep 25, 2008
I have an old computer that's running windows xp, and I want to know what I can delete from my add remove to make things run faster. I use disk cleanup and defrag often, as well as a free registry cleaner every now and again (which seems to pick up the same problems every time, i think mostly because error files are with programs that came preinstalled on my computer that are long gone, if anyone knows how to get rid of those let me know). I'm running on only 512 mb of memory. How do I view other specs? I can also provide a list of the things in add remove if you like so you guys can tell me what's unnessesary.
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Jun 26, 2005
My Dial-up connection box keeps coming up when I am away from my computer. I had it set for auto connect in the past, but it would go on line buy it self, so I had to change that. This started after I up graded to windows XP
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Jul 25, 2005
I'm trying to set up a remote connection so I can control and troubleshoot my other computer from my house, we both use dial up and windows xp is this feasible? What is the program that I want to look at? I've searched around but there isn't much mention of dialup anymore these days and we both cannot get any type of broadband
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Jul 20, 2005
I have an XP laptop that has both a dial up and an ethernet location. When at work I use an ethernet cable to check e-mail and connect to the internet. When at home I use a mindspring dial up. When I am at work with my ethernet connection, whenever I try to get onto the internet I get a message saying that I am offline. A get a message asking me to connect or cancel. When I connect, it does take me to the correct page. This happens all of the time. I can connect to each page every time I get this message but is seems to think I am in dial up mode.
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Aug 2, 2003
loose dial-up connection, after you log off your computer simply add this string to your registry, and your computer will keep your connection after you log off, and switch user until you disconnect it Standard Warning: You really should back up your system before making any changes to your registry
1. Open Registry Editor
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsNTCurrentVersionWinlogon.
3. Click
Add String Value within the Edit menu.4. Type KeepRasConnections in the dialog box, and select REG_SZ as theData Type.5. Click OK.6. In the next dialog box, type 1 and click OK.7. Close the Registry Editor
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Jul 11, 2005
I've been an XP Home SP1 user for quite a while now. I've been hesitant to upgrade to SP2, because I've heard that some common software does not work properly on SP2. Is there any truth to this? Should I stop worrying and just upgrade? Note that my typical usage includes Eudora email, Mozilla web browser,MS Office Pro 2003, some rudementary Eclipse/Java and Visual C++ programming, Norton AV 2005, and Adaware.Also of note is that I am about to change my Internet service from dial-up to DSL, so perhaps there are some firewall considerations.
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Dec 27, 2004
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Feb 3, 2007
Right now I can't afford to get more memory so I was just wondering what I could do
to get faster internet speed.Its almost like I have dial up!! Is there any program out there that will boost internet connections? I went to the control panel and deleted any unused programs and cleaned out the computer temp and other files this morning... (or does memory have anything to do with speed?
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Jun 17, 2005
I have computers sharing ICS, it is set to drop the connection after 5 minutes of inactivity, which it does. But it dials back a few seconds later. I deselected redial if line dropped and lowered the redial attempts, but it still does it. What do I do? I’d like the computers to have dial on demand, but I would like the connection to be free when not needed. These computers don’t have permission to access Windows updates and I keep them spyware and virus free as best I can.
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May 30, 2006
Windows 2000 Pro.I have put in a dial up connection many times manually. So I no how to do it, however
my pastor broght his computer to me cause he knows I no some about computers and I wasa going to put on some spyware and adware programs etc for him. This computer came from his house in a diffent town so I was going to put my dial up connection in it so I could get on the internet to get the update etc. Anyway here is what happens
I go to make a new connection and do all the right things and it comes up and say (it won't let me get all the way through it before it says) The Internet connection wizard could not set up a dial-up networking connection fro the microsoft ISP referral server. The C:ProgramFilesInternetExplorerConnection wizard ICWIP.DUN file may be missing or corrupt. and I can't get any farther.
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