proxyconn - Anyone use it?

[robert]

I am trying out the proxyconn accelerator probs. Does anyone use this? It is supposed to speed up your dial up connections by eliminating unwanted pop-up ads and by compressing/decompressing data. While I agree that you should have a small increase in performance by eliminating the pop-ups, I don't see how you can get an increase in performance when downloading files. Most of the modems already support the compressing/decompressing.

Thanks,

[Charles]

The following is from WWW.TECHTV.COM.

DSL Speeds Over Dialup?

Find out if Proxyconn can really deliver DSL speeds over a dial-up connection.

DSL speeds over a regular dial-up account... that's about as enticing an offer as you'll ever hear. If you're a road warrior, or a cost-conscious consumer, it might seem like nirvana. So it doesn't come as much surprise when one of our dedicated and curious viewers asked us about Proxyconn, one of the most aggressive providers of this type of service.

If you spend any time on the Internet you've probably seen one of its banner ads, or received an email from Proxyconn. The Proxyconn service costs about $9 per month. You download a piece of software, install it, and then you're off speeding down the information superhighway at breakneck speeds. That's the theory.

In fact what happens there are as under:

Your absolute connection speed never changes. Whatever speed you connect to your Internet Service Provider (ISP) is your connection speed. What Proxyconn promises is "increased surfing speed," which I interpret to mean, "You see the pages you want to see in the same time as if you were using a DSL account".