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| Reliability | 1.3/10   |
|---|---|
| Content | 0.5/10 |
| Customer Service | 2.5/10 |
| Speed Consistency | 1.8/10 |
| Value for Money | 1.7/10 |
| Reviewer Rating | 1.9/10 |
| Overall Rating | 2.9/10 |
Full review by
rfdesign
on 21st Mar 2008
User Rating : 2
Respect :
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Good Points: A clever idea but spoilt in my opinion, I suspect, by lack of investment in the Onspeed servers.
Bad Points: It doesn't really live up to its claims as far as I am concerned.
General comments: Onspeed in my opinion have been a bit unhelpful about how their system works but I think what it is doing is routing the users requests for web pages through their servers that then use their proprietary compression scheme to pack the data down before sending it to the user where a piece of Onspeed software unpacks it and sends it the browser. Because the files are compressed the data comes down quicker and if your using it on a mobile you get a smaller bill because you've transferred less data?
All this would be a great idea if there was sufficient capacity and speed in the Onspeed servers to make the whole exercise worthwhile but there isn't yet in my opinion.
On a good day for me their is an increase in speed of maybe 30-50%!
As another reviewer pointed out, it is probably heavily oversubscribed and as far as I am aware Onspeed have not invested any profit that they have made back into providing the capacity that their subscribers are paying for in my opinion?
I do not recommend Onspeed Broadband.
rfdesign's review and ratings | 216 words
Review by
gleneagles
on 23rd Feb 2008
User Rating : 2
Respect :
0
It was more trouble than what it was worth in my opinion I don't recommend Onspeed Broadband.
Works fine with dial-up on some web pages only
When it goes wrong you can spend ages trying to get it sorted out
gleneagles's full review | 40 words
Review by
Guest.
on 21st Feb 2008
User Rating : 1
Respect :
0
The trouble is any file you wish to download which is already compressed into a zip file or a RAR archive will not be any quicker because its already compressed, it only has the potential for web browsing onb only then if they can cope with volume, don't recommend Onspeed broadband due to this.
Guest.'s full review | 54 words
Review by
Guest.
on 11th Jan 2008
User Rating : 2
Respect :
+1
I saw this advertised and read the mag reviews on it - according to them, it worked. Well, maybe it did in the early days. I suspect its basically over-subscribed today and suffers from lack of investment by Onspeed. In the first month or so I had it, I would say it increased the overall speed by maybe 1.5 - which is significant on dial up. But - its gone downhill over the last 9 months and its now at the point (Jan 2008) where its almost pointless.
This software is really hype over reality. Al ...
Guest.'s full review | 435 words | 1 comment added.
Review by
diggs999
on 19th Sep 2006
User Rating : 1
Respect :
+1
If you have spare money, donate it to good cause rather than give it to onspeed.
diggs999's full review | 113 words | 2 comments added.
Review by
kateth45
on 28th Aug 2006
User Rating : 0
Respect :
+1
I have only been using Onspeed for a few days, and I have already contacted them to take up the offer of a 14 day return of my money! When I read the benefits, I thought I was getting a 10 times faster service, but in reality, I ended up with a 4 times faster service.
I was really disappointed. But then again, maybe my expectations were too high!
kateth45's full review | 90 words | 1 comment added.
Review by
MJP101166
expert review 
on 12th Jul 2005
User Rating : 5
Respect :
0
Onspeed is for those without broadband. It claims >near broadband speed< from a standard 56k dialup connection.
It works by a small installation running in your system tray which directs all your internet traffic to and from Onspeeds server. Image files (the biggest part of the traffic) are then compressed before further transmission thereby inreasing the data flow rate which gives the acceleration.
Thats the theory - does it work in practice?
To a degree yes it does.
When surfing, the pages ...
MJP101166's full review | 397 words | 2 comments added.
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