From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 15 08:42:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B883316A4CE for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 08:42:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chococat.sd.dreamhost.com (chococat.sd.dreamhost.com [66.33.201.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7863843D3F for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 08:42:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tjlists@tntluoma.com) Received: from webmail2.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chococat.sd.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 495A2FA39; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:42:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from 69.211.82.66 (SquirrelMail authenticated user tjlists@tntluoma.com) by webmail2.dreamhost.com with HTTP; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:42:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54688.69.211.82.66.1105778526.spork@webmail2.dreamhost.com> In-Reply-To: <41E894F7.5000700@makeworld.com> References: <2465F54E-66A9-11D9-A44D-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com> <41E894F7.5000700@makeworld.com> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:42:06 -0800 (PST) From: tjlists@tntluoma.com To: "Chris" User-Agent: DreamHost Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Speed up dialin connection via proxy? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 08:42:06 -0000 > Timothy Luoma wrote: >> >> I cannot get high speed internet access at home. In fact, I can't get >> more than about 26400 on my dialup. > > That sux Yup, especially after several years of having cable access @ our previous house/apartment. >> Anything else I could do to speed things up? > > ISDN? Direct TV? Cable? DSL? DSL = too far from the local hub ISDN = doubtful Cable = possibly this fall. Our cable company was bought by a new company which says that it is dedicated to expanding rural coverage (it ends about a mile from our house, I think). DirecTV = Had DirecWay installed for less than a month. They wanted $60/month, a Windows OS, no wireless (I understand that they have since come out with a way to overcome those two limitations).. but the bottom line is that it was really not much faster than dialup for regular browsing. For downloading a file, yes; but when you went somewhere like Amazon.com with a lot of images and other external files, it really slowed down (this was 2 way satellite, no phone line. We had it uninstalled before 30 days so we could get our money back ... except the $180 installation fee :-/