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What is Propel®
Accelerator?
It's the fastest Web
Accelerator on the market!
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
has teamed up with Breeze Communications, allowing you to dramatically
increase your surfing speed.
Pages that
previously took almost 30 seconds to load can now be viewed in less than
7 seconds, on average, and sometimes even faster. Propel® Accelerator
is the next best thing to DSL.
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Do I need new hardware?
Requires NO new
hardware.
Is easy to install,
just a few clicks will download it to your PC!
Works seamlessly with
your existing Breezecomm account.
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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!
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 Propel's network of servers
through a persistent connection. This eliminates the time wasted
re-establishing and closing TCP/IP connections.
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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How fast is it?
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 run by the
Propel® people with and without Propel® Accelerator.
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Popular Web Sites |
*Before Propel® |
*With Propel® |
How much Faster
with Propel®? |
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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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Does Propel®
Block Advertisements?
Yes
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.
Pop-up windows Propel® Accelerator can
block pop-up and pop-under windows that clutter your screen and slow
down your surfing. You'll hear a noise and/or see an icon each time a
pop-up has been blocked. It's easy to see a pop-up that was blocked, to
allow some pop-ups to always be shown and to turn the feature on and
off.
In-page ads Propel® Accelerator can
block most advertisements that appear on web pages. When an ad is
blocked, it is replaced with a light gray box on the web page, to make
sure that web pages maintain their intended design. You can easily view
blocked ads by right clicking on the gray box. As with pop-up blocking,
you can turn this feature on and off any time you like.
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What will be
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 content.
All browser-based emails.
All emails that contain images - even
when read in a dedicated email program.
MP3 files, executables & other files -
when downloaded from within your web browser (depending on the quality
of your connection).
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What will not
be accelerated?
Streaming media, and audio and video
files.
Secure pages, such as those used for
online banking and credit card forms and pages accessed over VPN.
Files downloaded outside your browser
using ftp.
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Will Propel Accelerator work on my PC?
Propel® Accelerator
has been through rigorous third-party testing to ensure that:
It runs on most
Microsoft® WindowsT-based PC systems, including virtually any PC
purchased within the last 4 years.
It does not in any
way interfere with other software or applications that you use.
Please check the requirements below to
make sure your PC will work successfully with Propel® Accelerator!
Compatibility
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Platforms: |
Windows 98/NT 4.0/2000/ME/XP
(sorry, no Macintosh support yet.) |
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Browsers:
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IE 5.0 or later, AOL 6 and
7, or Netscape 4.7 or later, MSN Explorer
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). |
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Utilities: |
Works with many ad blockers,
popup stoppers, personal firewalls, and other utilities.
For more information
click here. |
System Requirements
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Available Disk space: |
25 MB
(135 MB recommended) |
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Total System memory
(RAM): |
32 MB
(64 MB highly recommended) |
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