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Get your dial up moving with Netspace Accelerator

Benefit with Netspace

  • speed up your dial up
  • free on most dial up plans
  • easy to install
  • requires no additional hardware

Would you like to dramatically improve the speed of your dial up connection? For Netspace customers only, we've developed Netspace Accelerator, a software download capable of cutting page loading times by a factor of five. That means a page which once took 30 seconds to view can now take approximately 6 seconds or less.

How does it work?

Netspace Accelerator speeds up your dial up Internet connection using a combination of advanced compression techniques and smart caching. Find out more about how Netspace Accelerator works.

How does it work?

Netspace Accelerator uses a combination of techniques to achieve its dramatic increases in speed and performance. It's designed to increase the speed of web sites that you visit regularly, so the more you visit a site, the faster it will load.

Netspace Accelerator speeds up web page delivery using five intelligent techniques:

Compression

Netspace Accelerator compresses images and graphical content to make the image file size smaller and easier to download. You can set your own level of image compression, and still choose to view any image at full quality.

Caching

Netspace Accelerator intelligently retains and reuses web page elements as you browse.

Persistent connections

Netspace Accelerator optimises the connection between your computer and our server by keeping it open, eliminating the time wasted by establishing and closing TCP/IP connections to individual sites.

Chunk encoding with parallel connections

When you download a large file, Netspace Accelerator downloads different segments of that file from different locations, allowing you full use of your bandwidth.

Content filtering

Netspace Accelerator allows you to block unwanted content such as in-page ads and pop-ups before they are downloaded. Advertisements are replaced on the page by a light grey box. You can customise this feature, and switch it on or off as required.

How fast is it?

When visiting a new site, Netspace Accelerator will on average halve your download time. Then, the more you visit a site, the faster it will load. Learn more about Netspace Accelerator speed improvements and what is accelerated

How fast is Netspace Accelerator?

Using Netspace Accelerator, web pages can load up to 5 times faster - sometimes more. The more you visit a site, the faster it will load. Here's a table showing the average increases in performance we've been able to receive:

Website Regular load time Using Netspace Accelerator How much faster?
eBay 12 seconds 3 seconds 4 times faster!
USA Today 32 seconds 4 seconds 8 times faster!
Mapquest.com 31 seconds 5 seconds 6 times faster!
CNN 12 seconds 2 seconds 6 times 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 is accelerated?

Netspace Accelerator makes downloading most web content faster, however, there are a few exceptions.

Accelerated Content Content which stays the same
All text, including HTML and JavaScript Secure pages, online banking and credit card forms, as well as pages accessed using a Virtual Private Network
Most graphics and photos, including jpg and gif images Streaming media, audio and video files
Most banner ads, including animated gif images and Macromedia Flash content Files downloaded outside your browser using ftp
All browser-based emails  
POP3 and IMAP protocol emails and attachments  
Outgoing SMTP email, including great acceleration of large messages with pictures or attachments including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files  
MP3 files, executables and other files, when downloaded from within your web browser  

Who can use it ?

Customers on the SuperSaver plan can use Netspace Accelerator free for a limited time. Netspace Accelerator is not available to customers on Block Hours or Permanent plans. For all other Netspace dial up customers Netspace Accelerator is free.

To install simply download Netspace Accelerator, save it to your desktop and then double click it to run the install program.

What are the system requirements?

What are the system requirements?

  Apple Macintosh Microsoft Windows
Version: 5.0 5.0
File size: 2.4 MB 2.4 MB
Download time: 5-10 minutes 5-10 minutes
  Compatibility
Platforms: OSX 10.2 and later Windows 98/NT 4.0/2000/ME/XP
Browsers: Internet Explorer 5.2 and Safari 1.2 Internet Explorer 5.0 and later. Netscape 4.7 and later.
Other browsers supported with additional configuration include Opera, Mozilla and Firefox
  System Requirements
Available Disk Space: 25 MB
(135 MB recommended)		 25 MB
(135 MB recommended)
Total System Memory (RAM): 128 MB
(256 MB highly recommended)		 128 MB
(256 MB highly recommended)

Download Netspace Accelerator here