Google Web Accelerator & ADSL

As the data is cached in the USA, cant imagine that it will make that much of a difference
 
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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.
 
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.
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Highflyer_GP said:
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.
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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
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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.
 
Any idea what the bandwidth hit is on your machine - must use a lot more bandwidth (albeit with an increase in speed?)
 
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