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Installed it, opened a connection via 56K modem and... nothing.
Accelerator menu reports a high speed connection open and is self
disabled. Ok... poor design, but obviously I need to close my ADSL
connection before the Accelerator software will accept I've a regular
modem connection open. I close my ADSL connection and... nothing. Still
self disabled. It doesn't freaking work.

Worse, the Accelerator menu is using over 2.5% of my CPU when it's
TURNED OFF or self disabled. So not just bad design - sloppy programming
too.

Thank goodness Orcon at least included an uninstall program because I
needed it five minutes after installing.

So to re-cap - Orcon Accelerator software for Mac is poorly designed,
badly programmed and just plain broken

Oh well, at least 95% of the time I have ADSL access. So I'll continue
to live with slow 56K connections the other 5%. I shouldn't have
expected much more from Orcon, not after mucking me around with their
unbelievably bad Usenet service for over a year.

Regards,
Jamie Kahn Genet
--
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> So to re-cap - Orcon Accelerator software for Mac is poorly designed,
> badly programmed and just plain broken

was the software written by Orcon?

What is it meant to do?

Im guessing it is one of those software compression things that orcon
cache and compress whatever it is your downloading/looking at, lowering
the quality of pics etc, and then your PC/Mac de-compresses it at your
end giving you the illusion of a faster connection?

Dave - Dave.net.nz <> wrote:

> Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> > So to re-cap - Orcon Accelerator software for Mac is poorly designed,
> > badly programmed and just plain broken
>
> was the software written by Orcon?

If not Orcon, then it was sub-contracted or licensed by them. It carries
the Orcon brand name, the software has the Orcon icon, it comes with an
Orcon license agreement. It's Orcon software all right.

> What is it meant to do?

Basically it's lossy compression for text and graphics downloaded via
modem.

> Im guessing it is one of those software compression things that orcon
> cache and compress whatever it is your downloading/looking at, lowering
> the quality of pics etc, and then your PC/Mac de-compresses it at your
> end giving you the illusion of a faster connection?

Illusion - nope, I belive it does do the job (well - if it worked), but
only with text and graphic data - it won't help P2P, FTP or the like.

Regards,
Jamie Kahn Genet
--
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

I'm sorry to hear this
Orcon has always supported Mac users, and although they are just a small
percentage of users, we wanted to make the effort with our acceleration
software to include Mac users so that they didn't feel left out.
I haven't heard the same thing yet from any other Mac users - can any other
mac users confirm / deny this experience? I know that we did of course test
the software, so it must work on at least some machines.
We have had some very positive feedback regarding the PC version

Cheers
Seeby

CEO Orcon Internet

"Jamie Kahn Genet" <> wrote in message
news:1gvdkhu.rbq62s183o5csN% k.nz...
> Installed it, opened a connection via 56K modem and... nothing.
> Accelerator menu reports a high speed connection open and is self
> disabled. Ok... poor design, but obviously I need to close my ADSL
> connection before the Accelerator software will accept I've a regular
> modem connection open. I close my ADSL connection and... nothing. Still
> self disabled. It doesn't freaking work.
>
> Worse, the Accelerator menu is using over 2.5% of my CPU when it's
> TURNED OFF or self disabled. So not just bad design - sloppy programming
> too.
>
> Thank goodness Orcon at least included an uninstall program because I
> needed it five minutes after installing.
>
> So to re-cap - Orcon Accelerator software for Mac is poorly designed,
> badly programmed and just plain broken
>
> Oh well, at least 95% of the time I have ADSL access. So I'll continue
> to live with slow 56K connections the other 5%. I shouldn't have
> expected much more from Orcon, not after mucking me around with their
> unbelievably bad Usenet service for over a year.
>
> Regards,
> Jamie Kahn Genet
> --
> If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:49:11 +1200, "Dave - Dave.net.nz" <>
wrote:

>Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
>> So to re-cap - Orcon Accelerator software for Mac is poorly designed,
>> badly programmed and just plain broken
>
>was the software written by Orcon?
>
>What is it meant to do?
>
>Im guessing it is one of those software compression things that orcon
>cache and compress whatever it is your downloading/looking at, lowering
>the quality of pics etc, and then your PC/Mac de-compresses it at your
>end giving you the illusion of a faster connection?

http://www.orcon.net.nz/products/dia...elerator/info/

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:45:24 +1200, (Jamie
Kahn Genet) wrote:

>Installed it, opened a connection via 56K modem and... nothing.
>Accelerator menu reports a high speed connection open and is self
>disabled. Ok... poor design, but obviously I need to close my ADSL
>connection before the Accelerator software will accept I've a regular
>modem connection open. I close my ADSL connection and... nothing. Still
>self disabled. It doesn't freaking work.
>
>Worse, the Accelerator menu is using over 2.5% of my CPU when it's
>TURNED OFF or self disabled. So not just bad design - sloppy programming
>too.
>
>Thank goodness Orcon at least included an uninstall program because I
>needed it five minutes after installing.
>
>So to re-cap - Orcon Accelerator software for Mac is poorly designed,
>badly programmed and just plain broken

Di any of those accelerators work

A few ISPs have them

Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> Installed it, opened a connection via 56K modem and... nothing.
> Accelerator menu reports a high speed connection open and is self
> disabled. Ok... poor design, but obviously I need to close my ADSL
> connection before the Accelerator software will accept I've a regular
> modem connection open. I close my ADSL connection and... nothing. Still
> self disabled. It doesn't freaking work.
>
> Worse, the Accelerator menu is using over 2.5% of my CPU when it's
> TURNED OFF or self disabled. So not just bad design - sloppy programming
> too.
>
> Thank goodness Orcon at least included an uninstall program because I
> needed it five minutes after installing.
>
> So to re-cap - Orcon Accelerator software for Mac is poorly designed,
> badly programmed and just plain broken
>
> Oh well, at least 95% of the time I have ADSL access. So I'll continue
> to live with slow 56K connections the other 5%. I shouldn't have
> expected much more from Orcon, not after mucking me around with their
> unbelievably bad Usenet service for over a year.
>
> Regards,
> Jamie Kahn Genet

I tested out out the mac client myself usually on bitstream, found it
worked quite well, noticeable performance increase, sorted of made
browsing on dialup bearable.
My System Spec's
12" Powerbook G4 1.33, 768MB Ram, MacOS X 10.3.9

Invisible wrote:
>>>So to re-cap - Orcon Accelerator software for Mac is poorly designed,
>>>badly programmed and just plain broken

>>What is it meant to do?
>>Im guessing it is one of those software compression things that orcon
>>cache and compress whatever it is your downloading/looking at, lowering
>>the quality of pics etc, and then your PC/Mac de-compresses it at your
>>end giving you the illusion of a faster connection?

> http://www.orcon.net.nz/products/dia...elerator/info/

so I was right then, it compresses the content and gives the illlusion
of a faster connection. Illusion because connection speed doesnt change,
image quality does(setting can be changed), and local caching occurs
which probably makes the most difference.

Paul <> wrote:

> Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> > Installed it, opened a connection via 56K modem and... nothing.
> > Accelerator menu reports a high speed connection open and is self
> > disabled. Ok... poor design, but obviously I need to close my ADSL
> > connection before the Accelerator software will accept I've a regular
> > modem connection open. I close my ADSL connection and... nothing. Still
> > self disabled. It doesn't freaking work.
[snip]
> > Regards,
> > Jamie Kahn Genet
>
> I tested out out the mac client myself usually on bitstream, found it
> worked quite well, noticeable performance increase, sorted of made
> browsing on dialup bearable.
> My System Spec's
> 12" Powerbook G4 1.33, 768MB Ram, MacOS X 10.3.9

Hmm... perhaps it's just this configuration on my iMac. If I get the
time I'll try it out on another Mac of mine.

Like you Paul, I hope, or hoped this lossy compression software would
help make the approx. 5% of the time I'm forced to use dialup a little
more bearable.

BTW, Seeby - I know my post was very blunt, but I'm still annoyed about
the Usenet debacle. If it helps, I find Orcon's other services quite
acceptable these days. Tech support is a lot more responsive, which is
good.

Regards,
Jamie Kahn Genet
--
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.