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    Internet Acceleration by Traffic Shaping

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by bobh, Nov 5, 2008.

  1. bobh

    bobh Notebook Guru

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    has anybody used this traffic shaping? http://www.cfos.de/speed/cfosspeed_e.htm
    it seems to work, Ive had it running now for almost a hour with Utorrent downloading in the back ground. although Utorrent speeds have not increased/decreased, the speeds at which i can open other web pages while downloading is noticeable faster :) I'm not quite sure how it works but it seems to with no noticeable side effects. also is 64bit compatible
     
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  2. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    I'm assuming this is commercial software that is only available for download as a trial version?
     
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    Melagius Notebook Consultant

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    Did you have to pay for this,
    My net connection is a little funky at the moment and will not let me load that site.
     
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    bobh Notebook Guru

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    its free for 30 days, then after that? have not looked into that yet. comodo, avast and myself have not seen any spyware/adware. if its under 50.00 I'm thinking of buying it, but would like other opinions on it first, because 99% of the time these things don't work. but unless its fooling me with the numbers i think it works:tongue:
    ok just looked and i cant find a U.S price. all i could find was this - 14.90 €. think the web site is from germany?
     
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    bobh Notebook Guru

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    oh i never saw that theard...but hopefully we can get more feedback this time. some quick specs.. 1.5 dsl connection, Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 / 2.53 GHz, 64-bit, 4 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT. i dont know if that makes a big diif on something like this but just in case. :)
     
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    The program pre-configuration sucks, there are like 10-20 programs in the QoS list. When you reconfigurate it yourself it works better. I had it when I had cable and it did improve my browsing.
    And I don't see how can cfos cause lock ups...unless there is some dial-up connections incompatibility....
     
    ATG, Nov 6, 2008
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