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What
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| 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.
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How
much does it cost? |
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| 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.
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How
does it work? |
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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!
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
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.
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How
fast is it? |
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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.
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| 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 *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 |
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| All emails that contain images - even when
read in a dedicated email program |
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| MP3 files, executables & other files
- when downloaded from within your web browser (depending on
the quality of your connection). |
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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
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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.
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Will
Momentum TurboSurf Accelerator work on my PC? |
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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: |
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) |
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