What is
SpeedBoost?
SpeedBoost is a subscription-based service that accelerates
your Web surfing experience. SpeedBoost requires NO additional equipment
and NO waiting! It is the high-speed surfing solution with the convenience
of dial-up.
SPECIAL: Try SpeedBoost for FREE! Free first 30 Days, $3/month
thereafter.
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How much
does SpeedBoost cost?
SpeedBoost is $3.00 extra per month in addition to your
dialup account charge. For example, if you sign up for our Monthly Dialup
Account at $14.95 per month, the total charge you would pay each month,
with SpeedBoost enabled, would be $17.95. Note for Annual customers:
Annual dialup accounts will be charged at $36 per year ($3.00/month)
for SpeedBoost.
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SpeedBoost for FREE! Free first 30 Days, $3/month thereafter.
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How does
SpeedBoost Web Accelerator work?
SpeedBoost is a software program that runs on your Windows
machine or Mac (OS X). Web page and email requests are routed to the SpeedBoost server,
which then delivers the content in a highly compressed and optimized
form. You can expect to see up to 5 times speedup on your regular dial-up
connection.
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What Dialup
Access Plans will SpeedBoost work with?
SpeedBoost will work with all of our Dialup Access plans, but
will not work with accounts on Network 6
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What system
requirements are necessary to use SpeedBoost?
The recommended system requirements for the SpeedBoost Web
Accelerator are a Pentium 200MHz with 64MB of RAM and at least 5 MB
of hard-disk space. .
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What operating
systems can SpeedBoost be installed on?
SpeedBoost can be installed on any of the
following operating systems provided that Microsoft Internet Explorer
5.0 or greater is installed.
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 98SE
Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me)
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Mac OS X
Newer versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer are available free of charge
through Microsoft.
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How does
SpeedBoost compare with DSL or cable modem access?
SpeedBoost is an affordable, software-only solution designed
to significantly enhance Web access over low-speed (less than 200 kbps)
connections. DSL and cable modems provide high-speed service through
telephone or cable lines.
DSL and cable
are broadband technologies, which means they provide faster service
than the enhanced dial-up service SpeedBoost Web Accelerator
brings you. However, our SpeedBoost service is considerably less
expensive than DSL or cable, and is available wherever dial-up
access is available.
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The speed
of your dial-up service will stay the same with respect to:
- Streaming
media, audio, and video files
- Secure pages—like
the ones used for online banking and shopping
- MP3 files
and executable programs
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Is SpeedBoost
compatible with other browsers?
The SpeedBoost software will automatically configure Internet
Explorer for SpeedBoost. With other browsers, SpeedBoost should work
with any
web browser that allows you to specify an HTTP proxy. You must set
the HTTP proxy host in your browser to be "localhost" and
the port number to be "5500" (without quotes). Consult your
browser's help documentation for information on how this can be done.
If you experience problems please contact us and let us know.
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Does SpeedBoost
speed-up my secure (HTTPS) transactions such as online banking?
No. SpeedBoost does not accelerate secure transactions. Secure
websites will continue to work, but will not be speeded up.
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How does
SpeedBoost speed up my email?
If you are using an email program, such as Outlook, then email
text and body are compressed in emails. All document type attachments
(eg. Microsoft Word) are compressed. Image files which are linked to
a website within an HTML email are compressed. Image files which are
attached to the email, and executables are not compressed.
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Which
email programs does SpeedBoost work with?
SpeedBoost is designed to work with Microsoft Outlook and
Outlook Express. It has also been initially tested using Mozilla, Netscape
and Eudora, and should work with these clients.
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