RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] netzero hispeed

["Spurling, Shannon" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

v.90 and v.92 is not compression. It's a modulation of tones to make use
of an analog carrier.
What NetZero is talking about is a special compression method, like
stacker, that they run across the PPP link to their access servers. You
have to run a special driver on your PC to take advantage of it. It's
only Windows compatible. When I heard of it, I checked it out. Since it
was windows proprietary, I said forget it. ICS through a windows box is
a terrible hack. 
If NetZero is slow by default, I imagine that it's because they don't
run their own modem pools and the pools they subcontract with are ones
with lower than normal performance. What do you expect though, it's only
$10 a month. Any one else in the area offer that?

Shannon Spurling
WAN Engineer -Specialist

MOREnet, Network Services, Core Network
3212 LeMone Industrial Blvd.
Columbia, MO 65201

Main:(573) 884-7200   Fax:(573)884-6673

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ross, Matthew [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 12:01 PM
To: MLUG Off-Topic Discussion
Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] netzero hispeed

> Agreed. In fact I think modern modems do compression transparently.  
> file transfers are always compressed, so you would get no speedup.

They are. With dialup compressed and broadband not, a v.92 56k dialup is
supposedly equivalent to a 128k broadband. Doesn't take into account the
fact that most of what you download is compressed already though, or the
phone line limitations, so your best dialup is more like a 46k broadband
in practice.

> My brother uses netzero.  It seems to me like their regular service is
> not as fast as regular dialup.  So maybe they are just 
> lifting whatever
> bandwidth throttle is in place!

Exactly. The only way they could pull this off is by not running
compression on their basic service, which would mean your 56k isn't
benefitting from being a v.90 or v.92. Their "highspeed" utilizes these,
and is merely an excuse to jack up the price.

By the way, when they quit being a free service, did they get rid of
that AOHell-like adware interface?

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