PPC INTERNET ACCELERATOR

[wirelesscop]

Hey Everyone,

Does anyone know of a program out there that will ACCELERATE a dial-up connection of a Pocket PC? I am using a Nextel Cellphone and a HP 2215.

I know that such programs exist for normal dial-up's...they just hamper some of the clarity of images. I wasn't sure if there was one out there that would work on a PPC. I think I am working w/ 19kbps AT BEST with Nextel. I was trying to use Skype / AOL IM, Surf the net and a few other programs that my current connection just doesn't let me do.

Thanks!

[Menneisyys]

Originally posted by wirelesscop
[br]Hey Everyone,

Does anyone know of a program out there that will ACCELERATE a dial-up connection of a Pocket PC? I am using a Nextel Cellphone and a HP 2215.

I know that such programs exist for normal dial-up's...they just hamper some of the clarity of images. I wasn't sure if there was one out there that would work on a PPC. I think I am working w/ 19kbps AT BEST with Nextel. I was trying to use Skype / AOL IM, Surf the net and a few other programs that my current connection just doesn't let me do.

Thanks!


First, you need to use both HTTP body compression AND image quality decreasing. I recommend RabbIT ( http://rabbit-proxy.sourceforge.net/ ) for this. In addition to HTTP body compression and image quality decreasing, it is also highly configurable to do some ad filtering. Its default port is 9666 and should be started by the following command:

java.exe rabbit.proxy.Proxy

It also runs under Windows because it's Java (unlike some other apps, which, unfortunately, only run under Linux. One of them is ziproxy ( http://ziproxy.sourceforge.net/ ), which has a big advantage over RabbIT in that it uses built-in image downscaling, unlike RabbIT, which relies on the external ImageMagick).

[wirelesscop]

Hey there,

I am pretty new to all this... Will the program you are telling me about on work on my HP 2215?

I am looking at the site you sent me to and it's a little confusing. Do you know if there is a "Step-by-step" guide on how to install / use it?

Looking at the site, it looks like they author is implying that the program only works on WINDOWS XP, etc... Nothing is mentioned about Pocket PC. Maybe I am missing something.

[Menneisyys]

Hey there,

I am pretty new to all this... Will the program you are telling me about on work on my HP 2215?

I am looking at the site you sent me to and it's a little confusing. Do you know if there is a "Step-by-step" guide on how to install / use it?

Looking at the site, it looks like they author is implying that the program only works on WINDOWS XP, etc... Nothing is mentioned about Pocket PC. Maybe I am missing something.

IThere wouldn't be a point in running a cruncher app on your PDA (if it existed) because, then, you wouldn't win a single byte of bandwidth by using it. Web cruncher apps MUST be run on a separate machine, preferably not in the same network that the current, client device connects to. That device can be yours / your friends' / etc. PC at work, if it has unlimited and very fast Internet access.

You need to get and install a Java VM; after that, running the proxy server won't be at all hard. Will write a quick review of it tomorrow if I have some free time. On the PPC, you only have to configure the address of the newly-installed proxy server, which is very easy too.

[Menneisyys]

BTW, there're other solutions as well.

Skweezer ( http://www.skweezer.net/ ) - it only compresses the HTTP answer body that has the MIME type of text/html; it has no image compression capabilities. This means it's pretty useless for large-scale compression.

Thunderhawk ( http://www.bitstream.com/wireless/ ) - it compresses both images and textual info, so it may be a good solution, especially if you have a QVGA device. Thunderhawk is a killer browser for QVGA devices.

Also, if you happen to speak Hungarian, you may want to check out my article on HTTP compression / ZIPper proxy issues at http://menneisyys.freeweb.hu/gprs . (No English translation as yet, sorry.)