Purchasing a high speed internet dial up plan is a
simple, easy way to
significantly increase dial up internet speed.
Most of the best dial up internet access
providers currently offer high speed dial up.
Prices averaging around $15/month and up at
dial up internet
service
providers
like Netzero, $10/month
at BasicISP ($7/month without high speed).
The extra $3/month is well worth
it.
High speed internet dial up doesn't
increase upload
and download
speeds. It will however speed up web browsing dramatically
by decreasing the time it takes
to download a web page, even if your dial
up connection is as low as 24k. Consider
the
example shown
below.....
One
way high speed internet dial up works is by compressing web page images
before they reach your computer using a technique known as
lossy compression. Once the images reach your
computer they are recompressed. Recompressed images are
similar,
but not exactly the same as they were originally. Much of the digital
detail that
the human eye can't detect is removed from web page images.
As a result it appears you are downloading
these images faster. In reality there is much
less data in the
image to download. Look at the above dial up compression
examples compared to the same uncompressed image.
Can you see the
difference?
The compressed image on the right was displayed
on my computer monitor
nearly 3x sooner than the non compressed image on
the left without compromising image quality. All images on a
web page are compressed using the same method. Time saved waiting for
web pages to load will add up quickly.
A word of caution. Many
high speed dial up Internet providers promise
faster dial up speeds that equal DSL. Dial up acceleration
won't speed up dial up connections. You can upload and download 10x
faster
on DSL than on dial up. Configuring high speed internet dial up to its
maximum
would degrade web page images to the point where they would be
unrecognizable.
Image size before lossy
compression 16.0
KB (16,431 bytes)
Image size after lossy
compression 5.58
KB (5,719 bytes)
Example
of a high
speed internet dial up digital image
