Posted: 06th Jan, 2005 By: MarkJ
ISP Tiscali has launched its latest series of nationwide adverts alongside several broadband (ADSL) and dialup promotions. Free upgrades to faster services, new ADSL packages and a dialup booster have been highlighted:
Using "Tiscali Accelerator", the software boosts dial-up connections by "cleverly compressing web pages as you surf, enabling you to browse the web at least three times faster than normal".
Tiscali UK - which has 1.7m internet customers including more than 350,000 broadband subscribers - is also launching a capped 1Mb service (2Gb limit) for £15.99 a month. Its uncapped 1Mb service costs £24.99 a month.Much as we always say, any dialup "
Accelerator" will NOT boost the physical speed of your connection, but it will stream uncompress content (web pages, e-mail) much faster.
Pre-compressed (.zip, .mp3 etc.) files will download at more or less the same speed as before. More @
The Register.