Extreme Speed Internet Access

[Chas Keith]

We live in the country and dont have access to high speed cable. However, my
service provider offers "extreme speed". The main thrust there is:
compression and caching. My question, dont pc users already have caching;
providing we activate it in our system? So, whats the hype? And if there
are users that use this, what your opinion?

 

[Jym]

The real factor is the compression of the art work on the web pages being
sent. This is suppose to speed up the web loading and although I don't have
it at this present time ( I have DSL ) it seems like a good idea. I hear
isps are charging $5 for the add on service. Go for it. Jym

 

[Brian Lacher]

My father-in-law owns a dial-up ISP. He says (to me)that this new
compression stuff is the cat's meow. (Just for ref. he and I both use
cable-modem access.) From what I understand that most web pages will load
almost as fast as a broadband connection with this compression technology
installed.