http://www.marketscore.com/c/home.asp (http://www.marketscore.com/c/home.asp)
is it worth me joining etc to see if i get less lag?
Is this too good to be true? Yes.
Anybody that says they can reduce your lag with software is talking pants!
A standard TCP stack cannot be tweaked to reduce lag as such. You can increase throughput but not necessarilly lag. If the lag is being caused by an overstressed router between you and the target server then no amount of software will help.
Sorry m8
dammit, the site that linked me to is said something about how lots of lag is caused by stupid AOL users and how they hog bandwith with a program running in the background that AOL uses
ok, how that works is it's a semi intelligent proxy. (intelligent used in the loosest sense)
what it does is when you open a page it will look at the links and then start to download the pages that these link to into a cache. So when you click on a link it looks like the page is loading faster! This is fine when you're on a news site and spend a few minutes to read the articles, the software has a chance to pre-cache the other pages.
I guess it would speed up your 'Internet' browsing to some degree, but only if you spend time on each page reading!
In reality it is a real waste of bandwidth because it doesn't know where your going to click next, so it has to pre-cache all possible links!
rite, now i sorta understand