Reviews of FastNet99

1. 
   kmleow

   Reviewing 4.3 (Jun 26, 2005)

   Those who thinks this software does not speed up anything, they don't understand the technical side of this software.
   
   Whenever you want to connect to www.betanews.com, a DNS lookup has to be made to acquire the IP address of the server. Then your PC will initiate a connection to this IP address to make request for content.
   
   What this software does:
   It can help you create Host names to IP address mapping and store this locally in your computer. Whenever your computer wishes to connect to www.betanews.com, there is no need to perform a DNS lookup anymore. This saves from about a couple of miliseconds to 2 seconds of time before connection gets established.
   
   This software helps make things simple by searching your Favorites and History for server names, and compiles a list of Host names to IP addresses mapping on its own.
   
   The only downside about doing so is that:
   There are many dynamic host names today. Host names do not necessarily point to the same IP address the next minute, hour, day, week, etc. The mapping can get outdated and thus needs to be updated from time to time.
2. 
   Aires

   Reviewing 4.3 Beta (Mar 30, 2003)

   OK, well I'm giving this 5 stars because there needs to be more of a true reflection of this software's capabilities (after the last 2 posts). I run XP without the service pack and FastNet99 runs absolutely fine. Just because it didn't work with Me on a particular PC, is neither here nor there. I used 4.2 and version 4.3 seems just as stable. Read the spec above and decide whether you want to give it a go - based on the spec! Don't be swayed by the last few posts.
3. 
   freedomfighter

   Reviewing 4.3 Beta (Mar 30, 2003)

   I installed this and got Trojan attacks through it!!, install it at your peril!
4. 
   bbhermit

   Reviewing 4.3 Beta (Mar 30, 2003)

   I got a 'vblayout.ocx or one of its dependencies is not correctly registered. a file is missing or invalid.' error message when I tried to run this program. I did get a fresh copy of the vbruntime file, and that didn't make a bit of difference. I'm running Windows Me, with an AMD Duron 700 processor. Most of the speedup stuff doesn't usually work anyway.
5. 
   klumy

   Reviewing 4.2 (Mar 1, 2002)

   doesn't see any speed improvements. :(

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