Netzero high speed
 

Netzero says their speed is 5x faster than dial-up or whatever, which is what, half that of DSL? (I'm don't know too much about connection stuff) But it's only $15. Is there something really wrong with Netzero or is there some sort of a catch because that sounds like a really good deal compared to $50 for cable.

If NetZero high speed was the only available option other than Dial-Up, then I'd get it. If DSL and Cable were available, I'd get those instead. The cheapest DSL plan in my hometown is like $30 a month. You can download files at around 75 kilobytes per second with that option. I think the NetZero high speed is about 25 kilobytes per second. The best DSL around my hometown allows 150 kilobyte per second downloads. My mom's hometown (nearby) has Cable, which usually goes from 300-500 kilobytes per second.

In other words, the worst DSL plan is $15 extra than NetZero High Speed, but three times as fast.

-Lasereth

im getting net zero next month after my free earthlink runs out... i can not get dsl or cable in my area. :-/

From my understanding, NetZero Highspeed is simply dial-up that buffers all of the links on the page that you're viewing. It does not change the speed of downloads/attachments. To the same effect, NZHS does not work very will with dynamic HTML pages.

NZHS does the same thing that various other freeware dial-up accellerators do.

All in all, it's just a marketing ploy. Don't expect much of an improvement. I would just crank up your disk-caching for Internet Explorer and deal with dial-up.

-SF

do they also compress it as well, i think tehy intercept the images and compress them (reduce detail)

yup, your actual downloads wont speed up at all. ie programs, movies. but webpages will come up faster because they compress the images. something like propel.com

Patrick Norton suffered through dial-up in order to do this report. Please, make use of his suffering.

http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/p...675936,00.html

It depends on what type of user you are, it sounds like speed may be a concern in your case, maybe that's just me reading too much, into it, but in terms of which is better, in terms of upstream and downstream dsl & cable are the best, next is ISDN, and last is dial-up.

If your not a heavy internet user, then maybe netzero is the way to go. However, if you do alot of surfing, downloading, or streaming of music and videos it may be worth it to invest in dsl/cable.

Additionally with dsl/cable you don't have to be worried about not getting your calls, or getting your connection dropped if you receive a phone call. Moreover, you don't need a second phone line, which would cost even more than netzero's high speed service.

Also with DSL/Cable you can wire all your computers to use the same internet connection, and also all computers can surf the net at the same time, by purchasing a router, and cat5 cable, and a ethernet card if you computer doesn't have one.

you are exactly right. a friend of mine signed up for it, and the image quality in her browser was pathetic. there's an option to change the level of detail in images, but if you bump it up, the obvious result is no speed increase.

when will the world finally kill dialup and go to broadband!?

someday soon i hope... i want broadband so bad, but i can not get it where i am. maybe i should just move.

Wow, those images look like shit!