I am using an older computer. It has 256mb memory 40gb harddrive. It also has a 1200 mhz processor. I am also using dial-up. As you all know, this method is very slow. I was wondering if a web accelerator would make browsing faster. If so which free one should I use?

                                                                                                            Thank you, Most browsers have built in Web Cache abilities to enable. BUT, you may need to tweak the adjustments on it to get it set up the WAY you want. It basically creates a copy of the visited websites and the next time you visit the website, any information that is the same as last time is not requested over the limited bandwidth of dial-up, but instead only the changed data will be downloaded.

This makes a website that hasnt changed since the last visit load very fast, but a website that isgreatly different will take time to load. Also worse are sites that have flash and other embedded features that can not be stored locally on your computer which have to download and launch with each visit.

One product that I went with that is beyond the normal Web Cache of a browser is SQUID Proxy, but I also had 2 computers sharing a single dial-up connection with one of them running SQUID Proxy. Both computers connected through this proxy and loaded pages QUICKLY, especially if it was a website that had no changes to PICTURES, backgrounds, but only the text info on that website changed since last visit. I also ADDED a routine called autosurf that was a macro that connected to the internet while I was at work and visited  the 20 or so frequently visited websites so that when I got home about an hour later the data on the proxy ( web cache ) was fresh and so it loaded quickly like high speed internet when the website had not changed over that last hour or so or the change was little. For websites like www.weather.com, www.yahoo.com, and some others that I visited daily which had frequently changing information and flash there was little performance gain since between the automatic surf to UPDATE the web cache and the time I went to the website, it had already changed and had to download the new info.

Fortunately I was able to get rid of dial-up and shutdown my proxy. But these are the 2 solutions for your setup, a local web chache built into the browser or use of a proxy as a web cache which is more involved.What website do you suggest I go to for squid proxy?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF0pv-_h8yU

This video will show how to install and configure it. As far as getting the program, I only use this one clean without bundled junk. Others out there from other sites want you to download it bundled with junk or install a toolbar to download it etc. This is as clean as it gets direct from the source that created it.  http://www.squid-cache.org/Download/