Just about to load onspeed, have read various reviews and old forum items saying that there were problems having both…Is this still the case, I loaded Avast last week (october 2005). if there are issues…any suggestions as to what i should do to avoid them?
Onspeed is just a software that compresses data before transfer.
Fact is that you cannot exceed the limits of your bandwidth.
It will not speed up browsing or anything, since the server that hosts the data (websites) does not compress it.
So it will still be the same speed.
Things that claim to speed up dial up internet access are a hoax and (if you need to pay for them) a waste of money.
Only way to get a faster connection is changing your dial up to xDSL or, Cable or ISDN
Eddy, it does work. I have a friend who uses it and he has noticed a difference.
On-Speed should work as it is effectively only a proxy, On-Speed compresses the data on very fast connection into its proxy, you retrieve the data via the proxy’s much compressed data not the web sites host server. This is then decompressed on your system, the compression/decompression doesn’t seem to add appreciably to the overall page loading.
The trick is to have on-speed’s proxy and web shield work in tandem, which should be possible.
visit the User’s FAQ thread, it will give you a lot of useful advice. There should be something on proxies.
In this case webshield MUST scan the data AFTER they are uncompressed. So, I suggest adding the port where on-speed local proxy runs into the list of redirected ports (in webshield’s config) and un-checking the “Ignore local communication” checkbox - so that even the connection from the browser to the proxy on your very PC will get intercepted.