CNET Editors' review
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 3.6 is updated for Windows 7.
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All versions:
3.6 starsout of 126 votes
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Current version:
3.0 starsout of 34 votes
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"Added 10mb/s to my download speed"
Version: Full Speed 3.6
Pros
It set all my parameters at correct settings for max(Have experimented alot)Works much better than others I've tried
Cons
Servers don't always work for the test
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"Didn't even run.....malware detected."
Version: Full Speed 3.6
Pros
Nonenonenone
Cons
I thought CNet was supposed to scan for this ****. Not impressed.
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"It actually works!"
Version: Full Speed 3.6
Pros
I ran several speed tests with and without the boost and this software actually works! Without Full Speed I was getting 3.6 mb. With the boost turned on I got 6.5.
Cons
It looks crap but it works so who cares!
Summary
Speeded up my internet and it's free, all good!
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"measures speed to their servers--wherever that is"
Version: Full Speed 3.6
Pros
easy to use
Cons
not a real measure of speed through your provider. would be better if they designated a couple of portals on both coasts.
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"User Performance"
Version: Full Speed 3.6
Pros
Size (relatively small)
Works wellCons
Looks unattractive
Summary
Does what it says on the tin.
Worked fine on XP, doesn't seem to work on my Win7.
(worked fine with my previous xp - yet slightly slower speed with win7 (x64)
Updated on Feb 24, 2012 -
"Great Software"
Version: Full Speed 3.6
Pros
Speed and only Speed
Cons
I think that none
Summary
One of the best software for increasing the speed in internet browsing
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"Utter Rubbish...."
Version: Full Speed 3.6
Pros
Nothing....
Cons
After doing the initial test, the page took 17 seconds to load. After letting this program do it's 'magic' it took 28 seconds. Did it again and it took 31 seconds. WOW, how great.
Summary
Dont even bother taking the time to download this peice of rubbish as it doesnt improve your internet speed at all.
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"Could be better."
Version: Full Speed 3.6
Pros
Some improvement.
Cons
After watching the video, figure I can do my taxes quicker.
Summary
If you have the patience to do everything the video says, might be worth the time. I use Google Chrome. This is designed for IE and Firefox.Page loading did improve somewhat for Chrome. However, in both IE8, and Chrome, videos and downloads reduced to a crawl. Tradeoff not worth it.
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"do you need speed, this one can give it to you"
Version: Full Speed 3.6
Pros
boost my browsing speed quite well
Cons
none so far
Summary
if you really for your browsing, get this.
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"How did CNET get this so wrong??"
Version: Full Speed 3.6
Pros
Hey what do I know I'm just a user right? What I do know is that CNET's review sucks!
Well what can I say. I installed it, I did the boost thing and my speed was faster. Hey ho, job done, done deal, end of.Cons
Looks simple and cheap.
Summary
Hey what do I know I'm just a user right? What I do know is that CNET's review sucks!
Well what can I say. I installed it, I did the boost thing and my speed was faster and I know how fast my downloads are cause I do it all the time and 'm telling you they are defenately faster. Hey ho, job done, done deal, end of.
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