How to find out if you have got Tiscali accelerator on dial up?

hollydays

While searching for info on dial up for 2 friends,i read that if you are with tiscali dial up,they have a free accelerator. One comment said they dont tell you about it when you subscribe. How could I check if he has the accelerator or not,and if not how to download it?

JayTee99_2

Presumably it is to help download speeds, so here's one way to check if it's working

Download a test file, such as this one

http://www.f2s.net/test8.zip

The file is 8MB in size, a bit big for dialup, so just let it go for about 1 minute or so, until it stabilises, then cancel.
It's just a test file for downloading, doesn't do anything.

You would get around 5 KB/sec with most dialup connections
What do you get?

no idea how to get it from Tiscali though.

mrJ_5

the download accelerator will not increase the speed of downloads - it will only appear to make webpages load faster - it does this by compressing the images (making them smaller) - so the quality of the websites images taht you view decreases ... the more compression you select, the faster the connection, but the quality of the images will go down a lot

hollydays

Thanks-Think i read somewhere that you cannot download attachments on emails when you use an accelerator-also going to ask the first person (without tiscali) to try to switch off images and videos themselves to see if this speeds things up a bit.
not sure what speed they both got now.