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Flood
May 5th, 2005, 03:27 AM
http://webaccelerator.google.com/

i dunno if it really works, but it says ive saved 2.4 seconds so far :)
kraft
May 5th, 2005, 04:02 AM
I'll run it for a while and see how it goes too.
Yankeez
May 5th, 2005, 06:38 AM
All their other stuff rocks, so why not try this one :D
lllusion
May 5th, 2005, 12:00 PM
0.3 seconds since you posted it.

seems ehhhh... not sure on it yet.
kraft
May 5th, 2005, 01:12 PM
it really starts kicking in on heavily visited websites. These forums are loading quicker now.
lllusion
May 5th, 2005, 01:49 PM
damn, for real . 24.8 seconds now. :|
blinx
May 5th, 2005, 06:11 PM
url was not found... damnit

im the one that needs this :(
blinx
May 5th, 2005, 06:20 PM
gahhh i got it to work and its making it move slower... possibly cause it says not to use dial up.. and mines really close...
Viper
May 5th, 2005, 10:01 PM
This seems kinda pointless...my internet is fast enough already. If it sped up downloads tho, thats a different story...

Get on in google!
Jafo
May 5th, 2005, 10:49 PM
Probably good for dialuppers, but for BB it is useless. First of all, it uses cacheing to speed things up so you will never know if what you are seeing on a web page is up to date. Second, it uses compression which can actually slow things down for those using a broadband connection.
Viper
May 5th, 2005, 11:43 PM
Probably good for dialuppers, but for BB it is useless. First of all, it uses cacheing to speed things up so you will never know if what you are seeing on a web page is up to date. Second, it uses compression which can actually slow things down for those using a broadband connection.

I thought I read somewhere it was for dial up only....which confused the hell out of me. Perhaps it was just reported wrong, coz that doesnt make sence.
Yankeez
May 6th, 2005, 12:15 AM
I dont really see any improvement, o well
Viper
May 6th, 2005, 11:23 AM
I dont really see any improvement, o well


On broadband, did you expect to?
kraft
May 6th, 2005, 02:15 PM
They just did a piece on this for g4/techtv. It is actually designed for broadband and google says it really doesn't help dial-up as much as other web accelerators out there...
blinx
May 6th, 2005, 04:14 PM
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39197327,00.htm

hah... good thing i dont have this anymore :D
kraft
May 6th, 2005, 04:30 PM
You do realize that those are security concerns on a publicly accessable computer? Who cares if your computer at home remembers your XO password? Either way, I'm sure that problem will be worked out as this is still in beta.
duke
May 8th, 2005, 02:57 AM
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2858
kraft
May 8th, 2005, 03:09 AM
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2858

Interesting read. Doesn't matter as I ended up turning it off anyways. A good reason not to use it is while it saves me a whopping 1 minute of browse time a week, it also saps system resources.
Flood
May 8th, 2005, 04:41 AM
nice find duke...after a few days of trying it, i didnt find much improvement, so i too just turned it off
Casper
May 8th, 2005, 04:41 AM
Noone on staff here should be using that - after reading that thread that Duke put, I figured that was pretty clear.
TOTTEN
May 8th, 2005, 02:07 PM
Im using it now and I saved 7.3 minutes so far.
Lax
May 8th, 2005, 02:12 PM
I haven't saved anything. In fact, it makes me have to reload every page.

wtf
blinx
May 12th, 2005, 12:23 AM
news says google just pulled this because of compatability issues...

meh, i didnt like it anyway
TOTTEN
May 12th, 2005, 01:19 AM
news says google just pulled this because of compatability issues...

meh, i didnt like it anyway
What do you mean they pulled it?
Ive already saved 20.8 minutes :hail:google web accelerator.