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HOW DO I GET IT?
Easy....................Just come in or give us a call and we can
add the service to your existing Design & Service Computers ISP
account.
HOW MUCH IS IT?
$3.00 extra a month
DO I NEED ANY SPECIAL HARDWARE?
Any Computer running Windows 98 or later
WHAT IS ACCELERATED?
All text - HTML, markup, and javascript
Most graphics & photos - including jpeg and gif images
Most banner ads - including animated gif images and
Macromedia Flash contentAll browser-based emails
POP3
and IMAP protocol
emails and attachments
Outgoing SMTP email - especially
acceleration of large messages with pictures or attachments
including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint filesPDF
files
WHAT IS NOT ACCELERATED?
Secure pages,
such as those used for online
banking and credit card forms and
pages accessed over VPN.
Why doesn't Propel
accelerate HTTPS?
Technically, to accelerate HTTPS
it would have to be circumvented
by actively breaking the
protocols in use and spoofing
the desired destination site.
However, doing this would
create a break in the
security of the HTTPS protocol,
potentially allowing the logging
and clear text visibility of the
user's private data, such as
credit card numbers, PIN codes,
and bank access information.
Propel Accelerator does not
accelerate HTTPS traffic because
this level of security risk
would be unacceptable to our end
users.
Streaming
media, and audio and video
files
Why not compress
streaming media?
Propel does not compress
streaming media because video
files and audio files delivered
in the streaming format have
already been compressed to the
extent possible. To attempt
further compression would
degrade the streaming media past
an acceptable level.
Files downloaded
outside your browser using ftp
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Microsoft Windows |
Apple Macintosh |
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Total System memory (RAM): |
128 MB RAM |
128 MB RAM
minimum
(as per OSX) |
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Platforms: |
98/2000/Me/XP Home/XP Pro/Vista |
OS
X 10.2 or later and 10.4 on Intel
Mac |
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Connections: |
Any Internet connection where speed
is a concern, including lower-speed
wired and wireless broadband (<1
Mbps), satellite, wireless mobile
data, dial-up, and 802.11 hotspot
connections. |
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ISPs: |
Any ISP that offers Propel
Accelerator |
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Browsers: |
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or
later
Firefox
Mozilla
Opera |
Microsoft
Internet Explorer 5.2
and Safari 1.2 |
With Propel Accelerator 6.1, Web pages
typically load 3-7 times faster, and sometimes 25 times faster or
more while delivering near-original quality final images*. The more
you visit specific Web sites, the better
the performance you will receive.
Propel Accelerator 6.1 increases the speed of Web browsing with all
types of connections where speed is a concern. It installs easily
and works with most operating systems and browsers.
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* Results vary depending
on where and how users surf.
Propel Accelerator is
designed to provide maximum acceleration for
all Web sites and additional acceleration
for the Web sites you visit regularly. So,
the more you surf, the faster your favorite
pages will load!
Specifically, Propel Accelerator speeds up
the delivery of Web pages the following
ways:
- Compression.
Propel Accelerator 6.1 introduces new
compression techniques which take
acceleration to new levels and provides
better performance than competing
solutions. This results in a
faster page load times and an overall
improved Internet performance.
- Connection
Optimization. Propel
Accelerator optimizes the communication
between your Internet connection and our
network of servers. This eliminates the
time wasted re-establishing and closing
TCP/IP connections.
- Caching.
Propel intelligently retains and reuses
Web pages and page elements that have
previously been sent to your computer
- Content
Filtering. Propel Accelerator
lets you block unsolicited content, such
as pop-up ads and in-page ads. Blocking
these ads causes Web pages to load
faster.
- Dynamic
Imaging. Propel Accelerator
6.1 delivers fully usable Web pages to
end users in significantly less time,
without requiring users to settle for
tradeoffs between image quality and page
load speeds. With Dynamic Imaging, pages
initially appear with lower quality
preview images, allowing users to
navigate through pages as quickly as
possible. Image quality then improves
automatically and dynamically in the
background whenever a user pauses to
view the contents of a page. Propel's
image-compression technology allows both
preview and incremental image data to be
downloaded in the shortest amount of
time with the least amount of network
overhead.
These techniques produce
several results, primarily: faster page load
times, bandwidth reduction and reduced
impact of traffic congestion from busy hot
spots and Internet café connections.
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Microsoft Windows |
Apple Macintosh |
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Propel
Accelerator 6.1 |
Propel
Accelerator 5.2 |
| File size: |
2.5 MB |
2.5 MB |
| Download
time: |
5 - 10 minutes |
5 - 10 minutes |
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