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| Easynews Launches Easyboost Web Accelerator
I'm not sure how many Easynews users frequent the forum but thought this might be of interest to them and others of us that like to keep up with industry news.
Easynews is launching a new web acceleration feature called Easyboost. According to the images provided from their beta test results speeds were increased by up to 100%.
Here is some more info:
»www.easynews.com/easyboost/faq.html
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| Is this akin to the web accelerators that popped up in the dial up days, that simply cached the information "closer to home"? We all know a 15 MBit line is not going to get faster than 15 MBits. same with a 768k DSL line.
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| said by swintec  : We all know a 15 MBit line is not going to get faster than 15 MBits. same with a 768k DSL line. This.
Pretty worthless to residential users. |
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| said by kw :said by swintec : We all know a 15 MBit line is not going to get faster than 15 MBits. same with a 768k DSL line. This. Pretty worthless to residential users. I don't think it is worthless..just worth about as much as dial up "accelerators" were back in the day.  Some people loved it.
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My guess is they are playing games with the TCP congestion control algorithms. If a TCP connection starts seeing missed packets its supposed to reduce the data rate a bit. If you don't do this then you can push more data through, but the net as a whole gets slower and more congested. |
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Actually they have 5 different methods, and while they don't go into ANY details, yes, you can see speeds higher than your subscription limit, especially if you have an ISP with a "speed boost" feature. It appears that the servers somehow manipulate speed boost to allow you to get a constant throughput above the subscribed level. For example, I'm on a 16Mbit connection, and I get 20Mbits sustained, with occasional 30Mbit bursts in the middle of transfers (without preceding dips in speed). This appears to be "Method 4". Who knows how long before ISPs crack down, but I'm enjoying it while it lasts. |
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| said by Anon :
Actually they have 5 different methods, and while they don't go into ANY details, yes, you can see speeds higher than your subscription limit, especially if you have an ISP with a "speed boost" feature. It appears that the servers somehow manipulate speed boost to allow you to get a constant throughput above the subscribed level. For example, I'm on a 16Mbit connection, and I get 20Mbits sustained, with occasional 30Mbit bursts in the middle of transfers (without preceding dips in speed). This appears to be "Method 4". Who knows how long before ISPs crack down, but I'm enjoying it while it lasts.
Oh wow! Hmmm I just wonder is this Giganews new secret weapon as well ? Scratches head. |
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Curiosity got the best of me so I decided to sign up and play around with it. I will say Easynews has a lot of neat little features, there members portion of there website hurts my eyes attempting to look for what I need, so much text!
Anyways, I set easyboost to use method 4 which seems to be the most popular method. Threw some stuff in the zip manager and tried to download the zip file. I later figured out by the FAQs this type of download is not yet able to be easyboosted. You must click list view and download individual files one at a time (if you have a download manager it should not be a problem).
I went to list view and tried one of the files to see what kind of speeds I got. My line is a 15 MBit line with powerboost. The download maxed out my speeds for that one item (single connection). Granted, this is great as I believe most people would expect to be able to do this anyways right? Although, I think normally, people with high bandwidth lines can't max there speeds out with single connection downloads. So in this regard, not bad.
I tried filling my download manager with a bunch of downloads and naturally my line became saturated, due to multiple connections running. In this regard, I would not say it is anything revolutionary as when i do Rapidshare downloads, my line is maxed out the same way as well.
This is just my preliminary findings...I will try the other speed boost methods tomorrow and then try normal downloads without speed boost.
i still think this is nothing more than some type of caching going on at various points in the country / world to bring content closer to the end user so that it appears "faster"...Maybe even a content delivery network (think Netflix streaming type of set up) type of thing going on.
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NewsgroupRev
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join:2008-06-25 | The Easyboost method 4 netted good results for us in testing - speed increased almost 90%. Interesting thought on the CDN aspect.
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I did some further testing. Since EasyBoost method 4 provided the best speeds, I used that for the test.
I used the same material in each of the two tests, totaling about 1.1 gigs. My line speed is 15 MBits.
- Easyboost method 4 allowed me to download the test set in about 12 minutes
- I made up an NZB and threw it into my news reader and downloaded from a normal news server, to try and give Easyboost a bit of an edge, I used an EU server (I am in the US). I was able to download the set in about 11 minutes.
- I then turned Easyboost off and downloaded the set as one big zip file (you can not do this with Easyboost, you must go through each Queue manually and load up each link in your download manager, a very tedious process if you have your Queues filled). I abandoned that test as it would have taken several hours and I could not even come close to my full speeds. Keep in mind, without using Easyboost in this test, I was just using normal everyday Easynews service!
I know comparing Easynews web based downloads to that of a newsreader is somewhat like apples and oranges and I have to believe that those who use Easynews exclusively because of there web based downloads will find this new feature great as it now allows them to get there full speeds. However, time wise, a news reader with NZBs wins hands down.
The problem I see though is the numbers they are coming up with to show how great this new Easyboost is. Maybe it is just due to my location in relation to Easynews, but without Easyboost, I can not get better than DSL speeds on my zip manager/web based downloads. Easyboost gives me much better speeds obviously, and I see how they get all of these 80%-100% numbers in speed increases for there ads....but have customers really been putting up with these sub-par speeds without Easyboost all of these years? No wonder customers are loving it!
I do not think i would advertise this as a feature or bill it that way....I would chalk it up as simply providing what they should be already so customers get there speeds wherever they may reside! It is almost as if when they start charging for this, they are asking customers to pay more to get closer to there capped speeds.
On a side note, there web based search is great....If they had a plan that only allowed access to that I would probably subscribe!
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