What is the Momentum TurboSurf?

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. Momentum TurboSurf Accelerator is a subscription-based service that works with your existing Momentum Online dial-up connection, 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.

 

Momentum TurboSurf Accelerator is the next best thing to DSL, at a fraction of the price. Unlike costly and limited-availability broadband solutions, Momentum TurboSurf Accelerator is:

  • Available anywhere there is a telephone line.
  • Requires NO new hardware.
  • Is easy to install -- a few clicks will download it to your PC!
  • Works seamlessly with your Momentum dial-up connection.
  • Costs just pennies a day and gives you accelerated access to all your favorite Web sites.
How much does it cost?

The Momentum TurboSurf Accelerator is part of our Premium Package which costs $3.00 per month.

The Premium Package includes all of these 5 services:

  • Momentum TurboSurf Accelerator
  • SPAM Filtering
  • Virus Filtering
  • Pop Up & Ad Blocking
  • PC System and Connection Utility

The Premium Package ($3.00 a month charge) replaces the current Spam/Virus Filtering on your billing statement.

How does it work?

Momentum TurboSurf 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!

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Specifically, Momentum TurboSurf Accelerator speeds up the delivery of Web pages four ways:

  • Compression.Momentum TurboSurf 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.Momentum TurboSurf Accelerator improves upon your browser's caching ability. Momentum TurboSurf intelligently retains and reuses Web pages and page elements that have previously been sent to your PC. That's why the longer Momentum TurboSurf Accelerator is in use on your PC, the faster your Web pages will load.

  • Persistent Connections.Momentum TurboSurf 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.
  • Optional Content Filtering.Momentum TurboSurf Accelerator lets you block unsolicited content, such as pop-up ads and in page ads, which contributes to long wait times.

Momentum TurboSurf Accelerator improves your browsing experience by dramatically accelerating the delivery of Web pages to your PC. Our unique combination of intelligent browser caching, compression technology, and edge caching enables Web pages to be delivered to your browser with minimal latency at maximum speeds over your existing dial-up connection. As a result, you can expect a very noticeable improvement in response time.

Momentum TurboSurf Accelerator Architecture

 
Propel Architecture

 

The figure above depicts the relationships between the various components of the Momentum TurboSurf Acceleration Service and how they interact with one another:

  • The Momentum TurboSurf Accelerator Client Software (or Momentum TurboSurf Client) runs in the background on your PC as a local proxy. The Momentum TurboSurf Client maintains a persistent connection to the Momentum TurboSurf Network in order to eliminate the connections that need to be established every time the browser initiates a request. The Momentum TurboSurf Client decodes and caches the content it receives from the Momentum TurboSurf Network before sending it to the Web browser.
  • The Momentum TurboSurf Network sits between the Momentum TurboSurf Client running on your PC and the Web sites you are trying to reach. The Momentum TurboSurf Network consists of a collection of strategically deployed servers that manage connections, cache content, and encode data received from the destination sites. By doing so, the Momentum TurboSurf Network reduces the distance data must travel, and at the same time reduces the amount of data transmitted.
How fast is it?

Performance Boost

With Momentum TurboSurf 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 Momentum TurboSurf Accelerator.


Popular Web Sites *Before Momentum TurboSurf *With Momentum TurboSurf How much Faster
with Momentum TurboSurf?
Ebay 11.65 seconds 2.97 seconds 3.92 X faster!
USA Today 32.43 seconds 3.77 seconds 8.60 X faster!
Mapquest.com 30.56 seconds 5.01 seconds 6.10 X faster!
Monster.com 11.74 seconds 3.04 seconds 3.86 X faster!
CNN 11.68 seconds 2.26 seconds 5.17 X faster!
*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.

What Gets Accelerated

Most Web content will be accelerated, but there are certain exceptions:

What will be accelerated What will be accelerated What will *not* be accelerated What will *not* be accelerated
All text - HTML, markup, and javascript Streaming media, and audio and video files
Most graphics & photos - including jpeg and gif images Secure pages, such as those used for online banking and credit card forms and pages accessed over VPN
Most banner ads - including animated gif images and Macromedia Flash content Files downloaded outside your browser using ftp
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).  

An Example

An easy way to understand what Momentum TurboSurf Accelerator does is to consider a simplified example.

Using maximum graphics acceleration, a first-time visit to a Web page with Momentum TurboSurf Accelerator will be up to 3 times faster, with an average first-time visit greater than 2x.

For example, the first time you request the Amazon home page, the following events occur:

  • The request for the Web page is automatically routed by the Momentum TurboSurf Client to the Momentum TurboSurf Network.
  • The Momentum TurboSurf Network retrieves the requested Web page from the Amazon Web site.
  • Elements of the Web page (both text and graphics) are encoded and cached before being sent to your PC.
  • These page elements are then decoded by the Momentum TurboSurf Client, and assembled and delivered to the Web browser.

Subsequent visits to the same page will be up to 5 times faster.

The next time you visit the Amazon home page (which may have changed since the last visit), the following events occur:

  • Your request for the Web page is automatically routed by the Momentum TurboSurf Client to the Momentum TurboSurf Network.
  • The Momentum TurboSurf Network retrieves the requested Web page from the Amazon Web site. Having identified the page elements that had previously been retrieved in a prior visit, the Momentum TurboSurf Network only compresses and transmits those components that changed.
  • Data already stored on your PC - plus any new decoded page elements - are assembled locally by the Momentum TurboSurf Client and delivered to the Web browser.

Momentum TurboSurf Accelerator is an Internet acceleration service for dial-up users that speeds up the delivery of static and dynamic Web pages across the entire Internet, including the last mile.

The service significantly improves a user's browsing experience, while remaining universally deployable and completely transparent to ISPs and destination sites.

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Optional Content Filtering

Momentum TurboSurf Accelerator lets you block unsolicited content, such as pop-up ads and in page ads, which contributes to long wait times.

Pop-up windows

Momentum TurboSurf 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

Momentum TurboSurf 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.

 Will Momentum TurboSurf Accelerator work on my PC?

Momentum TurboSurf Accelerator has been through rigorous third-party testing to ensure that:

  • It runs on most Microsoft® Windows™-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 Momentum TurboSurf Accelerator!

Download Information

Version:   New! 4.1.0
File size: 1.5 MB
Download time: 5 - 10 minutes

Compatibility

Momentum TurboSurf Accelerator works with most Microsoft® Windows -based personal computers in use today, including virtually all PCs purchased within the last 4 years. See details below.

Platforms: Windows 98/NT 4.0/2000/ME/XP (sorry, no Macintosh support yet.)
Connections: Any low-speed Internet connection, including dial-up, ISDN, and wireless
Browsers: IE 5.0 or later, AOL 6 and 7, or Netscape 4.7 or later, MSN Explorer
See special instructions for Opera and Mozilla.
Utilities: Works with many ad blockers, popup stoppers, personal firewalls, and other utilities. For more information click here.

System Requirements

Available Disk space: 25 MB
(135 MB recommended)
Total System memory (RAM): 32 MB
(64 MB highly recommended)