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Q:
What is Simcon Dial-up Accelerator?
A: Simcon Dial-up Accelerator is a product that accelerates your Web
surfing experience using your existing phone jack and modem with NO
additional equipment and NO waiting! It's the high-speed surfing
solution with the convenience of dial-up.
Q:
How fast is Simcon
Dial-up Accelerator?
A: The exact amount of acceleration can vary, but with Simcon
Dial-up Accelerator you will notice a significantly faster
experience when you visit Web sites, read your e-mail on the Web,
and perform many other Web-based activities up to 6 times faster!
Q:
How does Simcon
Dial-up Accelerator
work?
A: Before the text and graphics that make up Web pages get sent to
you over your phone line, Simcon Dial-up Accelerator compresses them
using a proprietary technology. Less data is sent so the download of
pages and your surfing experience are that much faster! In addition,
Simcon Dial-up Accelerator stores elements of the Web sites you
visit frequently so you do not have to re-download them every time
you visit these sites.
Q:
What browsers can I use with Simcon
Dial-up Accelerator?
A: Simcon Dial-up Accelerator works with many popular browsers. The
only requirement is that the browser must be able to support a proxy
server.
Q:
Will Simcon
Dial-up Accelerator
speed up everything I do on the Web?
A: Simcon Dial-up Accelerator accelerates certain text and graphics
on Web pages. With Simcon Dial-up Accelerator you will notice a
significantly faster experience when you visit Web sites, read your
e-mail on the Web, download email using an email client like Outook
Express and perform many other Web-based activities. Simcon Dial-up
Accelerator will not currently accelerate file downloads such as
music files, streaming media or secure web pages.
Q:
What gets accelerated with Simcon Dial-up Accelerator?
What
will be accelerated?
Web pages - HTML, markup and JavaScript
Graphics including JPEG and GIF images
Text
E-mails
What
will not be accelerated?
Streaming media, audio and video files
Secure pages, such as those used for online banking and credit card
forms
Attachments such as music or digital photo.
File Transfers
Q:
How Do I Sign up for Simcon
Dial-up Accelerator?
A: To add Simcon Dial-up Accelerator to your existing service,
please contact your Sales Person or your Account Manager. If you are
currently a Simply Connect customer, you can go to the customer
support section of our web site and add it to your plan.
If you are not currently a member and would like to inquire about
our services, please click
here to be directed to the contact us page.
Q:
Where Can I Download Simcon
Dial-up Accelerator?
A: If you have already signed up for the Simcon Dial-up Accelerator
service and need to download another copy, please
click
here.
To add Simcon Dial-up Accelerator Plans to your services. Please
contact your account manager.
Q:
How do I install Simcon
Dial-up Accelerator?
A: Installation is very easy. Simply download the Simcon Dial-up
Accelerator installer and save it to your desktop. Then,
double-click on the file to install Simcon Dial-up Accelerator.
If you have already signed up for the Simcon Dial-up Accelerator
service and just need to download the software,
click
here.
Viewing
Secure Pages when using Simcon Dial-up Accelerator
Simcon Dial-up Accelerator does not interfere with secure pages
(such as those where you enter personal or credit card information),
although it does not accelerate them either. You will not see speed
improvements when viewing these types of pages.
Q:
Does Simcon
Dial-up Accelerator
speed
up e-mail downloads?
A: Yes, Simcon Dial-up Accelerator automatically accelerates your
email traffic (POP3 and SMTP) for all popular email clients such as
Eudora, Outlook, Outlook Express and Netscape Mail. Other
email clients should work transparently as well. Simcon Dial-up
Accelerator will also speed up Web-based e-mail programs such as
webmail.
Q:
Does Simcon
Dial-up Accelerator have
any other built in features?
A: Yes. Simcon Dial-up Accelerator has recently integrated a simple
pop-up blocking technology that is efficient and powerful. This
feature is built right into Simcon Dial-up Accelerator and requires
no extra software to be installed
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