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If you surf the Internet using a dial-up connection, you are painfully
aware of how slow Web pages load. Propel Accelerator is a
subscription-based service that works with any dial-up connection,
allowing you to increase your surfing speed up to 5 times. So, pages that
previously took almost 30 seconds to load, can now be viewed in less than
7 seconds, on average.
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About Propel
Propel is focused on solving a problem that affects approximately 50
million U.S. Internet users: slow Internet dial-up connections. In July of
2002, Propel launched a new service to address this issue - Propel
Accelerator, which speeds up dial-up browsing by up to 5 times. Now the
world's fastest way to surf over dial-up, Propel Accelerator has received
critical acclaim from reviewers at the Washington Post, the Mercury News,
and has won Industry awards such as CNET's Editor's Choice and ZDNet
Editor's Choice awards.
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Performance
Boost
With Propel Accelerator, Web pages load an average of 3 to 5 times
faster. The more regularly you visit specific Web sites, the better the
performance you will receive.
Here is an example of tests we ran with and without Propel Accelerator.
| Popular Web Sites |
*Before Propel® |
*With Propel |
How much Faster
with Propel? |
| Ebay |
11.65 seconds |
2.97 seconds |
3.92 X
faster! |
| USA Today |
32.43 seconds |
3.77 seconds |
8.60 X
faster! |
| Mapquest.com |
30.56 seconds |
5.01 seconds |
6.10 X
faster! |
| Monster.com |
11.74 seconds |
3.04 seconds |
3.86 X
faster! |
| CNN |
11.68 seconds |
2.26 seconds |
5.17 X
faster! |
| *Average time calculated based on loading
the home page. First time visit to a Web page loads on average 2 times
faster. Subsequent visits to the page load, on average,
3 times faster. |
What Gets Accelerated
Most Web content will be accelerated, but there are certain exceptions:
What will be accelerated |
What will *not* be accelerated |
| All text - HTML, markup, and javascript |
Streaming media, and audio and video files |
| Most graphics & photos - including jpeg
and gif images |
Secure pages, such as those used for online
banking and credit card forms and pages accessed over VPN |
| Most banner ads - including animated gif
images and Macromedia Flash content |
Files downloaded outside your browser using ftp |
| All browser-based emails |
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| All emails that contain images - even
when read in a dedicated email program |
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| MP3 files, executables & other files -
when downloaded from within your web browser (depending on the quality
of your connection). |
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Compatibility
Propel Accelerator works with most Microsoft®
Windows™ -based personal
computers in use today, including virtually all PCs purchased within the
last 4 years.
See details below.
| Platforms: |
Windows 98/NT 4.0/2000/ME/XP
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| Connections: |
Any low-speed Internet connection, including
dial-up, ISDN, iDSL, DSL (under 200K), and wireless |
| ISPs: |
All major ISPs |
| Browsers:
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IE 5.0 or later, AOL 6 and 7, or Netscape 4.7
or later, MSN Explorer
See special instructions for
Opera and
Mozilla
In order for you to receive acceleration while connected to the Internet
using AOL 8 and above you must use a non AOL browser while viewing web
pages (IE, Netscape, Opera or Mozilla). |
| Utilities: |
Works with many ad blockers,
popup stoppers, personal firewalls, and other utilities. |
System Requirements
| Available Disk space: |
25 MB
(135 MB recommended) |
| Total System memory (RAM): |
32 MB
(64 MB highly recommended) |
How does it work?
 Propel Accelerator is designed to
provide maximum 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 four
ways:
 | Compression. Propel Accelerator delivers text and graphics more
efficiently, using a proprietary compression technology that significantly
reduces the size of Web pages and page elements sent to your browser. |
| Caching. Propel Accelerator improves upon your browser's
caching ability. Propel intelligently retains and reuses Web pages and
page elements that have previously been sent to your PC. That's why the
longer Propel Accelerator is in use on your PC, the faster your Web pages
will load. |
| Persistent Connections. Propel Accelerator uses proprietary
techniques to carefully manage and optimize the communication between your
modem and our network of servers through a persistent connection. This
eliminates the time wasted re-establishing and closing TCP/IP connections.
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| Optional Content Filtering. Propel Accelerator lets you block
unsolicited content, such as pop-up ads and in page ads, which contributes
to long wait times. |
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