Google Web Accelerator & ADSL

[m0zy]

Google Web Accelerator & ADSL.
http://webaccelerator.google.com

Does this work ok with ADSL here in South Africa?

[JStrike]

As the data is cached in the USA, cant imagine that it will make that much of a difference

[Highflyer_GP]

As far as I know any web accelerator would have little to no effect on DSL, but mainly for dial-up or ISDN. Reason being that they typically cache links to websites before you click on them, reduce the quality of images etc., which appears to save time as a dial-up user. On DSL websites already load quick enough so there's no need for it.

[Oliver]

I have been using it for a while and it does work. Google has servers all over the globe and it doesn't only cache the data, it does other stuff as well:

Google Web Accelerator uses various strategies to make your web pages load faster, including:

• Sending your page requests through Google machines dedicated to handling Google Web Accelerator traffic.
• Storing copies of frequently looked at pages to make them quickly accessible.
• Downloading only the updates if a web page has changed slightly since you last viewed it.
• Prefetching certain pages onto your computer in advance.
• Managing your Internet connection to reduce delays.
• Compressing data before sending it to your computer.

[Oliver]

As far as I know any web accelerator would have little to no effect on DSL, but mainly for dial-up or ISDN. Reason being that they typically cache links to websites before you click on them, reduce the quality of images etc., which appears to save time as a dial-up user. On DSL websites already load quick enough so there's no need for it.

Google's web accelerator seems to do the oposite. Have a look at:

http://webaccelerator.google.com/support.html

3. Can I use Google Web Accelerator with a dial-up connection?

Dial-up users may not see much improvement, as Google Web Accelerator is currently optimized to speed up web page loading for broadband connections

[Highflyer_GP]

Hmmm interesting

[sludge]

I've been using it for a few months now.
I didn't really see a difference when i was on 512k, but after i downgraded to 192k i noticed the difference, pages i visit a lot loads a lot faster than without it.

[kilo39]

Any idea what the bandwidth hit is on your machine - must use a lot more bandwidth (albeit with an increase in speed?)