Accelerated Broadband

Broadband connections typically provide a fraction of the maximum speed claimed by providers. Propel Accelerator will “boost” your broadband browsing, providing acceleration when you need it. It works with your existing Service Provider, does not require technical skills to install and operate, and will speed up your Internet browsing by up to 5x depending on how and where you surf.

In addition to a boost to web pages that need it, Propel Accelerator also reduces the amount of data downloaded by up to 90%. This will save you money if you are on a metered Internet access plan that charges by the amount of data you download.

Anyone who has an Internet connection will benefit from using Propel Accelerator, especially if you:

• View sites with pictures and graphics
• Connect your computer to the Internet from different locations (work, home, hotspots, etc.)
• Access U.S. websites while traveling abroad
• Have an Internet connection with an average throughput of less than 5 Mbps

Propel works with all types of Internet connections, including:

• Wired & Wireless Broadband
• Wireless Mobile Data
• Satellite
• 802.11 Hotspots
• 1XRTT / GPRS / EDGE
• Dial-Up

Propel Accelerator will energize your Internet connection as well as provide you with:

• Pop-up Blocking
• Ad Blocking
• Email Acceleration

Compression - Propel Accelerator introduces new compression techniques, which take acceleration to new levels, and provides better performance than competing solutions. This results in a faster page load times and an overall improved Internet performance.

Connection Optimization - Propel Accelerator optimizes the communication between your Internet connection and our network of servers. This eliminates the time wasted re-establishing and closing TCP/IP connections.

Caching - Propel Accelerator intelligently retains and reuses Web pages and page elements that have previously been sent to your computer.

Content Filtering - Propel Accelerator lets you block unsolicited content such as in-page ads. Blocking these ads allows Web pages to load faster.

Dynamic Imaging is Propel’s latest technology, which eliminates the tradeoff between speed and image quality! It dramatically reduces the time it takes your web browser to receive a fully rendered web page. It delivers an initial preview image, which allows you to quickly move past any page in which you are not interested, and on to the ones you are. As you stay on a web page, image quality will improve in the background.

Propel Accelerator introduces new compression techniques which take acceleration to new levels and provide better performance than competing solutions. Overall web surfing and email data reduction can range from 70% to 90% depending on the range of final graphics qualities used. This provides compelling data reduction advantages for Service Providers, and results in correspondingly faster page load times for end-users.

Secure Pages - Accelerating HTTPS requires breaking the protocols in use and spoofing the desired destination site. However, doing this creates a break in the security of the HTTPS protocol, potentially allowing the logging and clear text visibility of the user's private data. For this reason, Propel Accelerator does not accelerate HTTPS traffic. This level of security risk would be unacceptable to our end users.

FTP Downloads - Files downloaded outside your browser.

Streaming Media / Audio & Video Files - Propel does not compress streaming media because audio and video files have already been compressed to the extent possible. Further compression would degrade the streaming media past an acceptable level.