Do they help? Do you use them & notice a considerable change or is this just more **** to shove on your hard drive to collect dust?
I've got 768 kbps DSL from att recently & saw in some help files that speeds under 220+ kbps was unacceptable. So I notice that when I download, it usually sticks to 70-90kbps sometimes rising to 220-300+ kbps (but not often & only lasts for around 5 seconds or so). So do internet optimers, like the stuff on [URL="http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php"]this page[/URL] work or no?
TCP Optimizer and some others work... to an extent. But it's free anyways so you might as well download. Just don't expect something amazing.
I found one that seems to work great called Dr TCP.
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