Sign up with GoogleThis might be useful for those who are keen to reduce your bandwidth usage. Or for those on small packages like me on the I-go.
In my dial up days my ISP was Mweb, to speed things up they gave users the propel accelarator. I've now subscribed to this service because it helps to speed up my connection by using compression, and therefore reduce the amount of data downloaded to your pc. This should have the effect of saving bandwidth because it reduces the size of the images/pages it is downloading.
This thing apparantly works by the following :
"Propel Accelerator is designed to provide maximum acceleration for all Web sites and additional acceleration for the Web sites you visit regularly. So, the more you surf, the faster your favorite pages will load."
Compression. Images and other graphic objects are compressed by removing some of the image detail. This results in dramatically smaller images that are delivered to your computer much quicker.
Caching. Propel intelligently retains and reuses Web pages and page elements that have previously been sent to your desktop.
Chunk Encoding with Parallel Connections. When a user begins to download a file larger than 100KB, this feature downloads different segments of the same file from different locations.
I found it here http://www.propel.com/home/aboutPA.jsp and its $4.95 a month, there are lots of other features.
Anyway I will cut the sales talk and give the hard facts, here are my download stats after 3 weeks of usage
Download Type | Original Size(without Propel) | Compressed(With propel) | Ratio
Web Text | 78.2 | 31.3 | 60%
Graphics | 126.5 | 56.3 | 57%
Email | 9.2 | 3.9 | 57%
Total | 213.9 | 91.5 | 57%
So it looks like I've saved myself a lot of bandwidth. Though correct if I'm wrong! I'd like to hear what you guys think of this possible bandwidth saving solution. Anyway take a look, it might save you some of that hard earned bandwidth we all buy every month.
In my dial up days my ISP was Mweb, to speed things up they gave users the propel accelarator. I've now subscribed to this service because it helps to speed up my connection by using compression, and therefore reduce the amount of data downloaded to your pc. This should have the effect of saving bandwidth because it reduces the size of the images/pages it is downloading.
This thing apparantly works by the following :
"Propel Accelerator is designed to provide maximum acceleration for all Web sites and additional acceleration for the Web sites you visit regularly. So, the more you surf, the faster your favorite pages will load."
Compression. Images and other graphic objects are compressed by removing some of the image detail. This results in dramatically smaller images that are delivered to your computer much quicker.
Caching. Propel intelligently retains and reuses Web pages and page elements that have previously been sent to your desktop.
Chunk Encoding with Parallel Connections. When a user begins to download a file larger than 100KB, this feature downloads different segments of the same file from different locations.
I found it here http://www.propel.com/home/aboutPA.jsp and its $4.95 a month, there are lots of other features.
Anyway I will cut the sales talk and give the hard facts, here are my download stats after 3 weeks of usage
Download Type | Original Size(without Propel) | Compressed(With propel) | Ratio
Web Text | 78.2 | 31.3 | 60%
Graphics | 126.5 | 56.3 | 57%
Email | 9.2 | 3.9 | 57%
Total | 213.9 | 91.5 | 57%
So it looks like I've saved myself a lot of bandwidth. Though correct if I'm wrong! I'd like to hear what you guys think of this possible bandwidth saving solution. Anyway take a look, it might save you some of that hard earned bandwidth we all buy every month.