File Details |
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| File Size | 2.8 MB |
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| License | Freeware |
| Operating System | Windows 2000/9x/Server 2003/XP |
| Date Added | April 8, 2003 |
| Total Downloads | 3,015 |
| Publisher | Giuseppe Criaco |
| Homepage | FastNet99 |
Publisher's Description
FastNet99 is a network utility that will speed up your Web browser every time you want to connect to a Web site on the Internet, by avoiding time consuming DNS lookups. It provides all the tools you need to help diagnose network problems and get information about users, hosts and networks on the Internet or on your Intranet. It combines DNS Lookup, Ping, TraceRoute, WhoIs, Finger, Time Synchronizer, KeepAlive, and more.
Latest Reviews
kmleow reviewed v4.3 on 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 The mapping can get outdated and thus needs to be updated from time to time.
Aires reviewed v4.3 Beta on 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.
freedomfighter reviewed v4.3 Beta on Mar 30, 2003
I installed this and got Trojan attacks through it!!, install it at your peril!
bbhermit reviewed v4.3 Beta on 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.
klumy reviewed v4.2 on Mar 1, 2002
doesn't see any speed improvements. :(
vincem reviewed v4.2 Beta on Jan 10, 2002
All I have got (exept for once when I got the site exceed data limits) is 'This page is not available'
mhochman reviewed v4.2 Beta on Jan 10, 2002
Yes, it does say that, and has said that for the past 6 hours. heh.
submarinex1 reviewed v4.2 Beta on Jan 10, 2002
without wishing to flame, if you read the message you get it says come back in an hour.
SHS reviewed v4.2 Beta on Jan 10, 2002
That beeing his site has exceeded its allocated data transfer
kmleow reviewed v4.3 on 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.
Aires reviewed v4.3 Beta on 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.
freedomfighter reviewed v4.3 Beta on Mar 30, 2003
I installed this and got Trojan attacks through it!!, install it at your peril!
bbhermit reviewed v4.3 Beta on 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.
klumy reviewed v4.2 on Mar 1, 2002
doesn't see any speed improvements. :(
vincem reviewed v4.2 Beta on Jan 10, 2002
All I have got (exept for once when I got the site exceed data limits) is 'This page is not available'
mhochman reviewed v4.2 Beta on Jan 10, 2002
Yes, it does say that, and has said that for the past 6 hours. heh.
submarinex1 reviewed v4.2 Beta on Jan 10, 2002
without wishing to flame, if you read the message you get it says come back in an hour.
SHS reviewed v4.2 Beta on Jan 10, 2002
That beeing his site has exceeded its allocated data transfer