How does the SNiP High Speed Accelerator work?

The SNiP High Speed Accelerator is the fast and affordable choice for faster web access. With the SNiP Accelerator you will enjoy a significantly faster experience when you visit web sites, send and receive your e-mail, and perform many other Web-based activities.

How Does It Work?

With traditional dial-up methods, the text and graphics that make up web pages get sent from the server to you over your phone line. Because of the large amount of data required to be sent, this process can be painfully slow. The SNiP Accelerator compresses this data using a proprietary technology, and sends it over your existing dialup phone line. This compression process allows a smaller amount of data to be sent - up to six times less - making the download time of your web pages and your online experience that much faster. As an added download time reducer, the Accelerator stores elements of the web sites you visit frequently, eliminating the need to re-download them every time you visit these sites.

What Gets Accelerated?

To achieve the fastest web and email acceleration available, proprietary lossless compression is applied to text, html, xml, JavaScript and style sheets. Proprietary image compression is applied to gif images, jpeg images and Flash content. SlipStream also accelerates email traffic, and is compatible with any POP3/SMTP client, including Outlook Express, Eudora and Netscape Mail. SlipStream Web Accelerator will not currently accelerate file downloads such as music files, or streaming video or audio media.

The SNiP Accelerator also offers additional value-added services to speeding up your web and email usage:

• Pop-Up Blocker - block annoying pop-up advertisements while surfing!
   
  The  Accelerator can prevent pop-up windows and floating flash advertisements from appearing while you browse the Internet. This feature is enabled by default, and no user-intervention is required. However, you can also easily disable this features at any time. SNiP's High Speed Accelerator allows you to specify a "White List" of sites where pop-ups will not be blocked and allows you to see a list of all pop-ups that were blocked.
   
• Banner-Ad Blocking - Stop the ads, and surf faster!
  
  The SNiP  Accelerator can block many graphical advertisements that appear on web pages (i.e. ad banners). Enabling this feature will prevent these ads from being downloaded and displayed in your browser, reducing download time.
   
• Integrated Diagnostic Support Tool

If you now have a SNiP Premium Dial-Up or Premium DSL account and are ready to install and use the SNiP High Speed Accelerator please click here.