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From: Ric Skinner <wskinner@fast.net>
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Thanks to Ron for the webRocket tip. I only have one question, is he
participating in Ascentive's multi-level marketing program whereby he will get
50% of sales made to other WAPHGIS members? If so, that should have been noted
in his "marketing" email to the list.

Ric

Health Maps wrote:

> Thanks for the tip.  Here is one for you: I just downloaded and installed
> webROCKET from Ascentive. http://www.ascentive.com They claim to double your
> effective internet
> speed by optimizing internal buffers and allowing for simultaneous two-way
> transfers (near as I can tell).  This improvement is supposed to work for
> ALL types of connections, from modems to broadband.
>
> Well, it works for me.  It has almost doubled my throughput.  In a straight
> "speed test", my dual-channel ISDN went from averaging 86kB/s to 113kB/s.
> Apparant speed has easily doubled since that involves all of the handshaking
> needed for loading web pages and reacting to user inputs.
>
> Cost: about $35.  Well worth it so far and no side effects.
>
> Ron

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