Dial Up

Ken68

Can't get broadband here,or cable, and am on dial up ISP Tiscali Daytime with Tiscali Accelerator.
BUT...I do have a 300gb hard drive.
Is there anything technically I can do to increase speed.
TIA.

albertross_2

satellite broadband? ......

http://www.silvermead.net/satellite/oneway/

http://www.avcbroadband.com/broadband/sat_prices.shtml

etc

Decadent_Fool

I'm afraid no speeding up of your machine in any way, or increasing it's capacity (such as having a large hard drive) will dramatically speed up your internet connection.

Sorry to be gloomy

espresso

Have you tried using another ISP. A friend of mine had consistently poor throughput speeds when using Tiscali on dial-up.

See here for some others to experiment with.

Unfortunately your big hard drive will not help at all.

Little_John

Another option would be ISDN it would increase your speed up to 128k but it is expensive and not all ISP's suport it

Decadent_Fool

Depending on where you live, you could petition with others in your village to get BT to upgrade the exchange; it worked for a friend of mine's village.

Ken68

Yes keep thinking of moving but tried Tesco, they were dead slow and tiscali with it's Accelerator aint too bad. Pay £8 a month now and do quite a bit of surfin'. No real need except daytime.
Thought there was an issue,Albertross, with satelite having to go out (or in) at a different speed. BUT...do have a redundant Sky dish, not sure they would give permission.
Thank you for the replies, not too techie but thought that perhaps downloading favourite site pages (as in offline manner)would increase speed.

albertross_2

satellite upload uses the phone line, download uses the dish. But most of what the average person does is downloading, so you will get a significant speed advantage over dial-up.

Ken68

Might give it a go, Albertross, even if only to get something back from the sky.