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Full Speed promises to improve both the speed and performance of your broadband connection. Oddly, when we put it through the ringer, it did just the opposite: our computer ran at a snail's pace when the program was activated.
The program's user interface doesn't exactly exude professionalism. All of the exclamation points asking us to Get Ready to Boost Your Speed! had us looking for the catch. At start-up, our only option was to select either Internet Explorer or Firefox to run the Web speed test. Once we made our selection a new window appeared and ran some sort of a test to check our speed, although we're not sure what exactly the test entailed. Our initial speed reading was around 13 seconds. From there, we were told to click either the Apply Full Speed Boost or Pro Boost buttons to enable the program. We opted for the Full Speed Boost. Once we rebooted our computer, we opened our IE and noticed that Full Speed was supposedly enabled. However, when we browsed as usual, our speed was considerably slower. We ran the speed test again, and our new speed reading clocked in around 17 seconds. So much for an improvement.
The Help features with Full Speed were a joke. The Live Help button took us to the publisher's Web site that was mostly just a push for the program. The program tells you to hover your mouse over any feature to view a description, but most of the description was cut off and unreadable. A desktop icon is installed without asking, but the program does uninstall cleanly. Still, we found this free program a waste of time and recommend you skip it altogether.
Publisher's Description
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This software will improve the speed and performance of all Broadband connections at home or business. Broadband Service Providers make great claims of the speed you will get from their service but in reality this is not always delivered and is partly due to the over cautious settings in Windows. Full Speed helps fix this worldwide issue and sets up Windows to better match current Broadband services. You will get excellent increases in performance with everything you do online. The boost will optimize Windows and Browsers to give you faster and smoother performance with all activities such as downloading, Web Browsing, Remote Desktop sessions, Office Intranets, music/video streaming, VPNs, email, P2P and gaming. Simple real-time "Before and After" tests will instantly show you the gains you have achieved. Extremely simple to use: just one click and everything is instantly and automatically done for you. The boost effects are permanent (unless you want to go back to the old settings of course) and last forever.
What's new in this version: Version 5.1 includes Web speed tests and more accurate auto' optimization for PPPoA or PPPoE. Also bug fixes (some settings were lost after reboot - now fixed).
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Current version:
2.6 starsout of 5 votes
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"Any programyou have to watch adds is not worth anything"
Version: Full Speed 5.1
Pros
NONE-speed was no better
Cons
Junk thrown in.. I don't need junk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Summary
Yes it is free- I'd rather pay and be free of junk- esp when it doesn't really work to begin with
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"Didn't Work"
Version: Full Speed 5.1
Pros
None, it didn't work at all.
Cons
All it did ,was try and get you to download more stuff.
Every time I clicked on show my speed, it kept sending me back to the same screen. Telling you ,to check out sponsors. I downloaded one, but it kept taking back to the same page.Summary
No good, don't waste your time, it's not worth the headache.
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"It worked!"
Version: Full Speed 5.1
Pros
Did not expect this to work...but it actually did! Real easy. I didn't get 5 times faster but i did get about 3 times so I'm not complaining. Just skip the other bundled software Ads if you don't want to install them and then the software installs no problem. Then click the boost button and you are done. That's it.
Cons
It looks a bit outdated and you need to skip the other bundled software offers to get to the main product, but it's free so i guess that's to be expected.
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"literally tripled my speed!"
Version: Full Speed 5.1
Pros
It actually worked! I pinged google.com 10 times before and got an average speed of 33ms, after i got average of 11ms. Very easy to use, just hit test speed then click boost
Cons
this is free, so it has adware in it. If you are extremely careful, however, you can avoid it. READ EVERYTHING AND YOU CAN AVOID THE ADWARE!!!!!!! they try to be very tricky by doing things like graying out buttons that say skip but those skip buttons actually work when you click on them and things like that.
Summary
Very good. 4.5 stars, would give it 5 if they got rid of adware or at least made it easier to get by.
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"Beware just loads crap-ware onto your computer"
Version: Full Speed 5.1
Pros
None unless you have time to delete all the crap it loads onto your computer
Cons
Just loaded all sorts of crap-ware
Summary
No longer can trust c-net for my downloads.
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