Well, kudos to today's developer for backing up its claims with genuine reviews, and especially that which appeared on page 227 of the May issue of PC Magazine: CBS's Internet Accelerator is tops overall.

Rather less kudos for failing to mention that the year we're actually referring to here is, er, 2000. Which by my math, is almost 16 years ago.

Thanks then, GOTD, but no thanks. I think I'll hang on for Microsoft's new Operating System, Microsoft XP, due for release in October 2001, at which time I'll stop bothering with Windows 98.

MikeR  –  10 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+94)

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I'm confused. And surprised. There used to be utilities just like this by the dozen...many years ago before networking in OS's were as advanced as now.. until they were shown to do nothing to improve connections in the real world. And worse, using advanced tools can reduce network performance, it's not something to be tried by non networking pros..

And Windows will not accept many of the settings this software tries to modify as they are hard coded into Windows networking stack. And the reviews the author has on their site are from 2000 if you Google them.

Amy  –  10 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+78)

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First of all the UGI looks very dated and secondly with broadband you will nearly always get a good speed, depending on your bandwidth and ISP. I've downloaded this and have given it a try out. Download a test file of 1gb without tweaking then tweaked using this software on the same file and didn't notice one bit of difference. It was neither good or bad in my opinion, just seemed rather pointless. Maybe someone else might benefit from this. Uninstalled.

Lenny  –  10 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+58)

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From Internet Advisors Review on their website :
"Do you waste hours sitting in front of a blank computer screen waiting for a Web page to finish loading? Do you find that downloading even a small file from the Internet to your computer takes ages? "

when is this from, the dark ages and dial up?

Now, seriously what I would really like is something to stop my internet provider throttling or slowing at peak times. My connection is great and fast (without any tweaking) off peak, and rather slower when everybody else is using it. Somehow I don't think any amount of tweaking and optimising at my end will help.

lofty  –  10 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+57)

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"Incredible claims require incredible evidence.".

And cannot find any. There is little to be gained by this tool. Features such as "TCP Checksum Offloading", "TCP Segment Offloading" helps reduce the CPU usage, but *not* the down/up-load speed.

SnurreSprett  –  10 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+30)

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