Another Pointless 3G Booster, But...

[jefboyardee]

Originally a reply to

Internet boosters are a myth. None works.

Until just now, I would emphatically agree with you. But I still try them, thinking that someday, one of them will work... a born dreamer.

Today I installed Network Speed Booster, expecting nothing. And then I tested its tethering, on and off, with speedtest.net. Ping and upload speeds didn’t change, but downloads were almost 3 times faster!

So even though I think it’s impossible, I’m using it.

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Someone else please try this and prove I’m insane.

 

[hstroph]

... Today I installed Network Speed Booster, expecting nothing. And then I tested its tethering, on and off, with speedtest.net. ...

What do you mean by "its tethering"? Are you perhaps using terminology that you don't understand?

Which flat-text compression proxy are you implicitly trusting with your web communications? That's how such "web accelerators" work, you know ... all your web requests go through a proxy which submits them to the target website, then transmits a compressed copy of any compression-eligible returned results to your installed client which uncompresses them.

Of course, these proxies would never systematically analyze your web communications for useable/saleable data content, would they?

 

[jefboyardee]

What do you mean by "its tethering"?

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