AT&T
Worldnet® Accelerator is designed to accelerate the download speed
of the Web sites you visit regularly. So, the more you surf, the faster
your favorite pages will load!
AT&T Worldnet Accelerator speeds
up the delivery of content using the following techniques:
- Compression. AT&T Worldnet 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. AT&T Worldnet Accelerator improves upon your browser's caching ability. AT&T Worldnet Service intelligently retains and reuses Web pages and page elements that have previously been sent to your PC. That's why the longer AT&T Worldnet Accelerator is in use on your PC, the faster your Web pages will load.
- Persistent Connections. AT&T Worldnet 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.
Performance Boost
With AT&T Worldnet® 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 that have been performed with the software that supports the AT&T Worldnet Accelerator.| Popular Web Sites | *Before AT&T Worldnet Service Accelerator | *With AT&T Worldnet Service Accelerator | How much Faster with AT&T Worldnet Service Accelerator? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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! |
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 | |
| MP3 files, executables & other files - when downloaded from within your web browser (depending on the quality of your connection) |
