Has anyone tried Onspeed?

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I've seen this advertised in the press a lot and wondered if it is any good. Does anyone know if it works?

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Official Insert By Martin

The following is an extract from my Cheapest Dial-up Internet Provider article

Also if you want to zip straight to broadband read theCheapest Broadband Provider article

Does OnSpeed Work?

OnSpeed is a heavily advertised service for dial-up users to use on top of their ISP, that claims to make your connection work at broadband speeds for £25 a year. Technically what it does, rather than speeding up your connection is decrease the amount of info you need to download. This does make that you receive using compression software. While this doesn't come close to broadband speeds, most dial-up users say it does speed things up somewhat.

However the best feedback is what MoneySavers using it have and will write below!

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Best answers:

• I tried Onspeed ages ago when I was on dial up..the offer I tried came off a cover disc in a pc magazine. It definitely did speed up web pages loading and emailing and general surfing but it doesn't help for downloading mp3 etc. Every pc magazine review I've seen re Onspeed has given glowing reports!
  See Computeravtive review: https://www.computeractive.co.uk/prod...ftware/1153878
• It compresses data on its servers and sends it over the existing connection to your computer.
  It only works for some types of files, it should work well for web pages, but not downloads.
• Yes, it does speed up things. Recommended when you are on dial up, it doesn't speed up downloading files though. It costs me Ј2 a month. I subscribe to FAST4 for Ј6.99 unlimited. All in all Ј9 for a broadband (non downloading) experience. I probably won't subscribe to it if I am on broadband as it should be speedy enough without onspeed.
  Try the following link
  https://www.onspeed.com/en/?MgM=afbchgfaa
  It has 24 hours of online interactive support too which is really cool!
• Try the existing threads; maybe try a search
  https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...d.html?t=41477
  https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...earchid=259242
• I've been using OnSpeed for a few months now, and in conjunction with Flexi-Surf ISP at Ј5 for 60 hours per month, and using either Opera or Firefox browsers, I get pretty good response on normal web pages.
  The biggest difference is the quality of non-text.
  At full speed, picture quality is poor, but there are six speed settings that you can adjust at any time, to improve the quality but slow the speed.
  Security pages (https) are not loaded via OnSpeed so they are at original speed and quality.
  However, I do have a couple of quibbles.
  Firstly, sometimes OnSpeed doesn't function properly and I may have to disconnect and re-dial my ISP or even re-boot my PC, but this doesn't happen very often.
  Secondly, if a web page is loaded at full speed and it contains a picture that I would like to be of better quality, I haven't found a way of achieving this. If I reset the speed setting to "original" and reload the page, the quality doesn't improve. I've tried deleting the page from my Web Page History, but this doesn't seem to work either.
  Anybody know if there is a way around this?
• I am really impressed by it as it is an interactive Q&A session.
• According to my Onspeed Performance record, I have now had it for 5 months, 1 week and 16 hours. My savings have been a meagre 44 minutes. I only pay 1 p/minute for internet usage 24/7 so I reckon even by the end of a year, I'll still be heavily out of pocket.
• That comparison is for continuous traffic on the connection, not random browsing. However it is extremely low; has Onspeed been switched off some of the time?
  On this single call it has compressed 23MB to 2.52, which would save an hour if continuous traffic.
• I tried it on a free trial - and didn't find it worth the cost of signing up. I'll wait for broadband.
• It may be useful even in conjunction with broadband on a bandwidth-capped service
• I have Onspeed installed on one computer and, being one of Tiscali's customers, their Accelerator software on another.
  I can't find any difference in performance between the two. The big bonus is that Onspeed charge Ј25 for a one year licence whereas the Tiscali version is free to download, and use.
• I have been using onspeed for almost a year now it does speed up your connection the only hiccup is if the settings are too fast any pictures you download degrade in quality.However that shouldnt put you of trying it.I have it on-top of my broadband to give me some extra kick when surfing.
• It drove me and my husband mad coz it messed up our computer, luckily we cancelled within 7days due to the problems,No it didnt seem to make our dial up any better, but thank goodness for broadband.I would not recommend onspeed.
• Hi I have recived a disk from tiscali telling me they now offer all their customers free compression software sounds just the same as on speed, I haven't tried it yet but you can download from their site if you are a customer. I give it ago when I have a bit of time and let you know
  Annie
• onspeed is in fact a rather inferior product vis-a-vis propel (at propel.com)
  PS BT Yahoo Anytime customers get a 1 year free sub to onspeed
• I've installed the recently released PocketPC version on my Ipaq 2210 PDA which I connect to the internet through Bluetooth and my Sony mobile when away from home. It's obviously better and cheaper to speed up this access as it is even slower than normal dial-up. Onspeed noticibly improves the speed of browsing (perhaps not as much as I hoped) but when switchd on I cannot access my Email Inbox in Pocket Outlook. I have to switch off OnSpeed which rather defeats the bject if there are any attachments I want to download. Contacted OnSpeed via the on-line real time help line but the lass quickly got out of her depth but got a senior techie to phone me, which was great service. He said he would simulate my problem and phon me back by Monday at the latest. I'm still waiting. Not so great service!
• I've looked at Onspeed and I'm not impressed, especially not when you consider the price you can get broadband for these days.
  If your anything like me and value your privacy you'll want to read their privacy clauses too.
  An interesting article on Onspeed can be found here:
  https://www.guardian.co.uk/online/sto...127808,00.html