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Earthlink launches TotalAccess 2004 for Macintosh

updated 09:35 am EST, Mon January 5, 2004

TotalAccess 2004 for Mac


EarthLink today launched and announced that it has become the first major ISP to provide a Web accelerator, free-of-charge, to Mac users. The Web accelerator allows users to surf the Web up to five times faster than typical 56K dial-up speeds, according to the company and is available for both dial-up and broadband customers.The software also provides Mac OS X AddressBook synchronization with Earthlink email, integration with EarthLink's spamBlocker, an improved Task Panel, a menubar item, a location manager, server-based email previews.


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    01/05, 09:45am | report spam | Reply |

    AOL had this years ago

    It cracks me up to see Net Zero, and now Earthlink touting a product that speeds up your internet experience by not fully decompressing JPEGs. Everything is fast...and pixelated! Whoopie!

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    01/05, 10:31am | report spam | Reply |

    Dial up?

    People still surf with dial up?

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    Yes, in distant countries

    ...outside the U.S. I'm in no mood to pay $1200 AU a year for DSL.

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    01/05, 12:19pm | report spam | Reply |

    ummmm

    Why not just turn off downloading images all together on your browser? Then load them when you need to see them. seems like it would be even faster. Of course, the problem is many web developers feel the need to put every piece of c*** on their web page and you need images to even be able to select links. I love it when developers keep their pages clean and simple. Or at least offer a version that is.

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    01/05, 04:05pm | report spam | Reply |

    Accelerator

    This doesn't just speed up images. It also compresses up web pages (better than the standard modem connections). Add in a proxy server backbone (so they only have to go from proxy server to you, avoiding the site altogther), and you do get a speedup. However, it doesn't speed up file downloads, streams, email, etc. Just web pages (and non-secure ones, at that).

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    01/05, 08:25pm | report spam | Reply |

    Goodbye...

    ... 2.5Mbit/sec scores at webservices.cnet.com/bandwidth

    I'm ready for this new "High Speed" Earthlink service! wooo I knew this cable modem c*** was just a fad. Bring back 56k dial-up!

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