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What is Slipstream Accelerator? |
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Slipstream is the latest technology
in dial-up compression and acceleration (also known as Hi-speed dialup or
broadband dialup). Slipstream Accelerator is a client / server
compression technology that works with your existing
Succeed.Net connection, allowing you to dramatically increase
your web surfing and email speed by 6X or more! Pages that previously took 30 seconds
to load, can now be viewed in less than 7 seconds with an
average dial-up modem connection!
Slipstream Accelerator is the next best thing to DSL or cable,
at a fraction of the price. Unlike costly and
limited-availability broadband solutions, Slipstream Accelerator
is:
Available anywhere there is a normal telephone line
Requires NO new hardware (works with your existing modem)
Easy to use - install a small
software client on your PC (Windows
or MAC OS X)
Great low cost alternative to DSL or
Cable (account pricing)
An easy upgrade to your existing Succeed.Net account (upgrade
request)
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How does it work? |
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Slipstream 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.
Slipstream Accelerator speeds up the delivery of Web pages three
ways:
- Compression. Slipstream
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. Slipstream
Accelerator improves upon your browser's caching ability.
Slipstream intelligently retains and reuses Web pages and page
elements that have previously been sent to your PC. That's why
the longer Slipstream Accelerator is in use on your PC, the
faster your Web pages will load.
- Persistent Connections.
Slipstream 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.
Please refer to
Technology components for more detail on how Slipstream
Accelerator works.
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How fast is it? |
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With Slipstream
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 Slipstream
Accelerator.
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Popular Web
Sites |
*Before
Slipstream® |
*With
Slipstream |
How much
Faster
with Slipstream? |
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Ebay |
11.65 seconds |
2.97 seconds |
3.92 X
faster! |
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USA Today |
32.43 seconds |
3.77 seconds |
8.60 X
faster! |
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Mapquest.com |
30.56 seconds |
5.01 seconds |
6.10 X
faster! |
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Monster.com |
11.74 seconds |
3.04 seconds |
3.86 X
faster! |
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CNN |
11.68 seconds |
2.26 seconds |
5.17 X
faster! |
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*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. |
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What
Gets Accelerated
Most Web content
will be accelerated, but there are certain exceptions:
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What will be accelerated |
What will
NOT be accelerated |
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text - HTML, markup, and javascript |
MP3 files, executables & other compressed files -Streaming media, audio and video files,
and zip files |
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Most graphics & photos - including .jpg and .gif images |
Files
downloaded outside your browser using FTP |
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Most banner ads - including animated gif images and
Macromedia Flash content |
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All browser-based web email (Succeed.net, hotmail,
yahoo, etc) |
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| All
emails that contain images - even when read in a
dedicated email program |
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Will Slipstream Accelerator work
on my PC? |
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Client Software
Slipstream Accelerator has been
through rigorous third-party testing to ensure that:
- It runs on most Microsoft®
Windows™-based PC or Macinstosh OS X systems, including virtually any PC
purchased within the last 5 years
- It does not in any way
interfere with other software or applications that you use.
Compatibility
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Platforms: |
Windows 95b/98/NT 4.0/2000/ME/XP or Macintosh OS X |
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Connections: |
Any low-speed Internet
connection, including dial-up, ISDN, IDSL |
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Browsers: |
IE 5.0 or later, or
Netscape 4.7 or later. All others - You must set the
HTTP proxy host to be "localhost" and the port number
to be "5400" (without quotes). Consult your browser's
documentation for information on how this can be done. |
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Utilities: |
Works with many ad blockers, popup stoppers, personal
firewalls, and other utilities. |
System Requirements
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Available Disk space: |
PC -
25 MB
(135 MB+ recommended)
MAC -
25 MB
(135 MB+ recommended) |
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Total System memory
(RAM): |
PC - 32 MB
(128 MB+ highly recommended)
MAC - 128 MB
(256MB+ recommended) |
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