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MegaSPEED
Web Accelerator for Macintosh - Frequently Asked Questions
1.
Overview of MegaSPEED Web Accelerator
2.
Download and Installation Help
3.
Using MegaSPEED Web Accelerator
4.
Product Details
Overview of MegaSPEED Web
Accelerator
How
does MegaSPEED claim to be
5X faster?
Web
page performance is measured by the amount
of time it takes to download an entire Web page into your browser. So,
when comparing the performance improvement delivered by MegaSPEED
Accelerator with an unaccelerated Internet connection, we configure two
identical computers. Both are connected to the Internet at the same
dial-up connection speed and both have the same computer and Internet
browser configuration.
Using an automated browsing
measurement tool (i.e. a surfing "bot"),
both computers visit the same Web pages multiple times. In order to
eliminate variations in download speed caused by various network
factors, we take the average times for downloading the same page with
and without MegaSPEED Accelerator and compare the two averages in order
to determine the improvement factor for a specific Web page (example:
www.amazon.com). 5X represents the high-end of the frequently measured
averaged results.
If you are particularly
interested in the topic of timing Web
pages, here's a link to a site that provides a stopwatch for timing
page loads and many other interesting Internet timing tools:
http://www.numion.com/Stopwatch/index.html
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How
does MegaSPEED's solution
compare to DSL or cable modem?
MegaSPEED
is an affordable software-only solution
designed to significantly enhance Web access over low-speed (less than
200 kbps/second) connections. By contrast, DSL and cable modems provide
high-speed Internet connectivity using hardware solutions that work
with special telephone or cable lines.
The price for DSL or cable
modem is significantly higher than MegaSPEED
Accelerator. In addition to the higher price, many areas simply do not
have DSL or cable Internet service available.
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What
are the privacy
implications of using MegaSPEED Accelerator?
Personally-identifiable
Information on Acceleration Servers If
you have a high level understanding of how Acceleration works you may
be concerned that the Accelerator could be used to track your browsing
activities in a way that could violate your privacy. We recognize that
your privacy is very important, and therefore we have implemented the
Acceleration Service so that personally-identifiable information cannot
be easily tracked or easily derived from data within our server
infrastructure. When your Accelerator client software connects to our
infrastructure, it identifies itself using a unique client ID. Our
infrastructure has a database of client IDs that are authorized to
receive acceleration, but that database does not contain any
personally-identifiable information associated with the IDs, such as
your name, address, or email address. Further, we have designed all of
our server logging features in such a way that no single log contains a
direct record of the Web sites visited by specific clients.
Personally-identifiable information regarding browsing activities is
subject to the Privacy Policy and can be derived from information
logged only by applying special post-processing.
Accelerator
Client/Server Communication
The Accelerator client software does not transmit any historical record
of your browsing activities to our servers other than
non-user-identifiable summary timing and compression information, and
diagnostic information. Such information is used solely for overall
system performance monitoring and quality assurance.
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Download and Installation Help
How
long will it take to
download MegaSPEED Accelerator?
Depending on the speed of your modem and the processing speed of your
computer, downloading will take between 5-10 minutes. For example, a
modem operating at 48 kbps (kilobits per second) will download
MegaSPEED
Accelerator in about 5 minutes using a recent-vintage computer. After
download running the install on your computer takes a minute or less.
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Using MegaSPEED Web Accelerator
What
ports does the MegaSPEED
Accelerator use?
The MegaSPEED Accelerator uses two ports. If you are encountering
errors
preventing you from using the accelerator, please ensure the following
ports are
open in any firewall software you are using on your computer.
5400 (127.0.0.1)
7000 (216.126.145.190)
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How
do I change the image
quality settings for all images?
To adjust
the image quality, slide the bar
located on the "Images" tab of the Accelerator program. The two sample
images on that screen will change to show you how images on websites
will look at the current acceleration level. When you are done
adjusting the image quality setting, click the apply button to save
your
changes.
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What
are the system
requirements for MegaSPEED Accelerator?
Below, you will find the suggested and minimum system requirements
beyond the basics of an analog modem, a telephone line, and an active
Internet connection.
PowerPC G3 processor at 333MHz
64 MB RAM
6 MB Free Hard Disk space
OS 10.2 or later
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Internet connection line speed
in Kbps (kilobits/second)
Minimum: 14.4 Kbps
Maximum: 200 Kbps
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I
travel. Does MegaSPEED
Accelerator work anywhere I use my computer?
Yes. If
you are accessing the Internet through the
same ISP and your system conforms to MegaSPEED Accelerator system
requirements you should be able to get an accelerated Internet
experience.
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What
types of Web content does
MegaSPEED accelerate?
MegaSPEED Web Accelerator significantly speeds up web page access using
proprietary lossless compression applied to
text, html, xml, javascript and style sheets. Proprietary image
compression is applied to gif images, jpeg images and Flash content.
MegaSPEED does NOT speed up
file downloads (over FTP or file sharing programs), streaming
audio/video and HTTPS (secure web sites).
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