"If you think about a dial-up connection to the Internet and I was to get a very big file -- a huge file -- something that normally would take me on a dial-up connection 10 hours to download, I would download using this at one second, " explains Terabeam CEO Dan Hesse.
Earlier this year it launched a network adapter for its PlayStation 2 gaming system that lets customers play against each other over the Internet using either a dial-up modem or a broadband connection.
It works regardless of whether I'm on the Net via a dial-up connection.
Unfortunately, this is a test of patience with a dial-up connection.
It would have taken more than 11 minutes to download over a dial-up internet connection.
Even then most users got to it via a slow dial-up connection.
The mobile grabs data off the Web about three times as fast as a regular dial-up phone connection, plenty of speed for e-mail and sending photographs or videoclips.
Immediately I discovered one thing: On a dial-up 28.8 connection, GM's site is slow.
You can do all this even if your Internet connection is a creaky-slow dial-up modem.
New technologies due to be rolled out across Europe in the coming year will give mobile users a permanent connection to the internet avoiding lengthy dial up and download times.
It requires a base station that needs to be connected to a PC, but will work with any kind of Internet connection, whether broadband or dial-up.
TweakDUN: Improve the speed of your dial-up connection by adjusting the Windows 95 MTU. TweakDUN also lets you create and edit a host file, which can dramatically speed up Web browsing: Instead of contacting a domain name server to look up every IP address, your browser will cache them on your hard drive.
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