How do you speed up connection

[grahammelon]

Hello all,
Having a 5 year old PC and on dial up things are slowing down drastically.
As the web and programmes seems to be only aimed at those on BB now, I was wondering if there is anything I can use to block a lot of the c*$!p and images which take up so much precious download time on every page?
I tried a FF add on , Bork 1.7 but discovered there is a bug with it that has not been fixed by Mozilla.
So please can anyone tell me if there are any alternatives.
Many thanks

[John_McKenna]

How about ONSPEED?

[Fusion]

You could try the advice in this link -->> Set up Firefox as a text only browser noting the web developer toolbar provided by Chris Pedericks.

It is designed for developers to see how their site(s) look with various options disabled.

I have just tried it and it makes a site look pretty bleak, but should load a lot quicker.

[grahammelon]

Thanks you guys for such quick replies.
I have tried onspeed and didn't get on with it to well.
I am as we speak trying your suggestion Fusion.
It's bleak but 100% faster. Only small draw back is having to switch it on and off but it's a small price to pay.
Thanks once again and a Happy (speedy) New Year.

[Fusion]

A Happy 'bleak' New Year to you also [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Madeline]

Another thing you can try is to ask BT to increase the 'gain' on your line. This should improve your connection speed which helps quite a bit. We did this and we usually don't need to block things. We usually get a connection speed of 40.0, 44.0 or 45.2Kbps. This probably sounds dreadful to BB users, but you get used to it!
We couldn't get on with Onspeed either.