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I am currently on AOL but I have heard nothing good about them.....I have been looking at Netscape and Netzero. But they have something called Web accelerator. As far as I can tell the web accelerator copies part of the internet page to my computer. I love to crusie the net. If I cruise to much will it fill up my memory on the computer?? I have no idea of this so I bring it to te pros. Any suggestions?

This ISP has been been getting plugged on the airways as of late.

$9.95 a month and it comes with the web accelerator (which optimizes the pages and images to make them download faster). It doesn't help with downloading files or sending mail, but it can make the modem surfing experience a lot faster.

I just checke and they do service Spokane. There's a 1 month free trial, so you're not out much by trying it.

this is what I found out on the web page you suggested. this is what they say web acelerator is.

How does Web Accelerator work?

The Web Accelerator technology compresses text and graphics that make up Web pages and stores them in an area on your computer. When you revisit a Web page, not all the elements that make up the page need to be downloaded over the Internet, so page loading and Web surfing is much faster. Plus, with Pop-Up Blocker, you no longer have to wait for those unwanted pop-up ads to load.


My question is what is your opinion on this.

Can it eventually eat up my memory?

The upside to that is you won't have to download the graphics every time you visit a page (like this forum). They'll all ready be on your computer.

Sure, it can eat up drive space on your hard drive, but that's pretty much how IE works anyway. You can clear those pages out (right click on the Internet Explorer Icon, and click "Delete Files" in the middle, under "Temporary Internet Files").

The ISP I showed is pry about as cheap as you can get... dunno how good the service is though... so that free first month is a good thing (try before you buy).

Web accelerator huh. Sounds to me like a larger cache. I mean, I can already set this on my own computer without any special web accelerator tool. Personaly, I don't like it though.

I've run into problems with updated pages that won't load the updates, because they load everything from cache instead (for faster loads). Thus, I have that kind of thing turned off. I have to wonder how well it really helps.

For the most part, at work at least, it's always a matter of going to new sites. Since new sites are not alraedy caches, they are going to load slow anyway. Thus you are back to square one anyhow.

I'm an advocate of making web pages less complex myself. Even though you can find statistics that say 80% of the US population is on broadband, the simple fact is, a -lot- of people (good working people) can't get it in their area.

I lived on the South hill until just a few years ago, and I still couldn't get DSL when I moved out.

I wouldn't base an ISP decision on any web accelerator whizbang.
Just my thoughts.