Frequently Asked Questions
Q:
What is Acceleration?
A:
Acceleration is an exciting new service that dramatically
increases the speed of web content delivery over a dial-up connection,
giving users the ability to surf the Internet up to 6 times faster.
Q:
How much does it cost?
A:
Pacific Online is including Acceleration for FREE with a regular active
paying 56k dialup Internet connection.
Q:
How does Acceleration work?
A:
Acceleration is an intelligent, software based content
acceleration application that more than doubles the speed of web
content delivery over a dial-up connection by reshaping, reformatting,
compressing, and caching content. Acceleration offers a
near-broadband experience over a traditional dial-up connection.
Q:
Do I need any new hardware or software to support
Acceleration?
A: You will not need any new hardware - only a small downloadable
file that you can configure as needed. A separate version is
required for Windows and Macintosh based systems.
You can
Download
Propel for Windows Here
or if you have a Macintosh
Download
Propel for Macintosh Here
Q:
How does Acceleration speeds compare to traditional dial-up
speeds?
A:
In tests against standard dial-up, Acceleration more than
doubled the speed of web content delivery over a traditional
dial-up
connection, enabling Acceleration users to load
web content
up to 6 times faster. Different content types are
optimized at different
levels.
Data
Type
|
Average Performance
Gain
|
|
HTML
|
Up
To 20x
|
|
GIF
|
1.54x
|
|
JPEG
|
2.17x
|
|
PNG
|
1.54x
|
|
XML
|
2x
|
|
Java
Script
|
Up To 20x
|
|
Text
|
Up To 20x
|
|
Flash
|
Up To 1.25x
|
Q:
How does Acceleration compare to V.92?
A:
Acceleration
provides compression at higher speeds and
for a wider variety of file types than V.92; however, combining V.92
with Acceleration offers end-users additional features, including
Modem On-Hold and Quick Connect.
Q:
Does Acceleration increase my connection
speed?
A:
Acceleration increases the speed of web content delivery
by
utilizing existing bandwidth more efficiently. While a 56
Kbps
connection is still a 56 Kbps connection, by intelligently
shaping
requested web content, Propel Acceleration enables your
browser to load
content up to 6 times faster.
Propel accelerates Web page text (including plain text, HTML,
markup and
javascript) and the most common forms of graphics: Gif,
animated Gif,
and JPEG images, Flash and File downloads.
Propel does
not accelerate other forms of Internet content, including:
streaming
media, such as video and audio streams; secure pages,
such as those
used for online banking and credit card forms. |
