Google Web Accelerator
May 27, 2006 | 06:39 PM
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Google Web Accelerator
http://webaccelerator.google.com/index.html
How many use it already? It seems to work pretty well for both IE and FireFox. Here's how:
But don't worry, it's still secure:
How many use it already? It seems to work pretty well for both IE and FireFox. Here's how:
Google Web Accelerator uses various strategies to make your web pages load faster, including:
* Sending your page requests through Google machines dedicated to handling Google Web Accelerator traffic.
* Storing copies of frequently looked at pages to make them quickly accessible.
* Downloading only the updates if a web page has changed slightly since you last viewed it.
* Prefetching certain pages onto your computer in advance.
* Managing your Internet connection to reduce delays.
* Compressing data before sending it to your computer.
* Sending your page requests through Google machines dedicated to handling Google Web Accelerator traffic.
* Storing copies of frequently looked at pages to make them quickly accessible.
* Downloading only the updates if a web page has changed slightly since you last viewed it.
* Prefetching certain pages onto your computer in advance.
* Managing your Internet connection to reduce delays.
* Compressing data before sending it to your computer.
Google Web Accelerator receives much of the same kind of information you currently send to your ISP when you surf the Web:
* Google will receive your requests for unencrypted pages (those with "HTTP:", not "HTTPS:", at the beginning of the URL), along with information such as the date and time of the request, your IP address, and computer and connection information
* If you enter personally identifiable information (such as an email address) onto a form on an unencrypted web page, some sites may send this information through Google. Whenever your computer sends cookies with browsing or prefetching page requests for unencrypted sites, we temporarily cache these cookies in order to improve performance
* In order to speed up the display of pages generally, Google Web Accelerator may store copies of web pages, including prefetched pages that you did not visit, in the Google Web Accelerator cache on your machine. This is separate from your browser's cache, which only identifies pages that you actually visited. You can empty your Google Web Accelerator cache at any time by following these instructions.
* Google will receive your requests for unencrypted pages (those with "HTTP:", not "HTTPS:", at the beginning of the URL), along with information such as the date and time of the request, your IP address, and computer and connection information
* If you enter personally identifiable information (such as an email address) onto a form on an unencrypted web page, some sites may send this information through Google. Whenever your computer sends cookies with browsing or prefetching page requests for unencrypted sites, we temporarily cache these cookies in order to improve performance
* In order to speed up the display of pages generally, Google Web Accelerator may store copies of web pages, including prefetched pages that you did not visit, in the Google Web Accelerator cache on your machine. This is separate from your browser's cache, which only identifies pages that you actually visited. You can empty your Google Web Accelerator cache at any time by following these instructions.
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May 27, 2006 | 07:10 PM
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It says I've so far saved 21.0 hours.
Maybe. Maybe not.
Sometimes a webpage takes forever to load, I'll terminate the Google Accelrator program, and then the page will come up quick.
Maybe. Maybe not.
Sometimes a webpage takes forever to load, I'll terminate the Google Accelrator program, and then the page will come up quick.
May 29, 2006 | 02:30 PM
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Mainly what a dial up Accelerator does is a picture compresion and cacheing webpages that you most frequently view. So if you go to a page that changes alot its not going to do much of anything. And if you go to pages that have alot of pictures they are not going to be full quality. In advertisments they make the programs look like they make your connection faster but they dont. With telephone wires in most citys you are lucky to get 45k connecton due to the quality the physical connections. You still have the fact that 56k is the most data you can push through telephone line, Unless your using DSL connection which has a diffrent method of transfering data acrost phone lines. Just my $.02.
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May 29, 2006 | 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Churnd
But don't worry, it's still secure:
- Google Web Accelerator sends requests for web pages, except for secure web pages (HTTPS), to Google, which logs these requests. Some web pages may embed personal information in these page requests.
- Google receives and temporarily caches cookie data that your computer sends with webpage requests in order to improve performance.
- In order to speed up delivery of content, Google Web Accelerator may retrieve webpage content that you did not request, and store it in your Google Web Accelerator cache.
To learn more, read our Google Web Accelerator Privacy Policy (http://webaccelerator.google.com/privacy).
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May 29, 2006 | 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by boriswebs
With telephone wires in most citys you are lucky to get 45k connecton due to the quality the physical connections. You still have the fact that 56k is the most data you can push through telephone line, Unless your using DSL connection which has a diffrent method of transfering data acrost phone lines. Just my $.02.
May 29, 2006 | 05:11 PM
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Originally Posted by OutdoorLiving
In this age of DSL/Broadband, etc. How many of us really need an "Accelerator"?
I've had it installed for about 20 minutes now... It's working.
I'll probably install it at work as well, and there's a TON of bandwidth at work!
May 29, 2006 | 06:57 PM
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To tell the truth, I haven't seen any improvement in my speed with it...I have a cable connection, and I am running that on a 54 MBps wireless connection. I haven't had any timeouts on my web browser yet, but I haven't seen any speed increases.
May 29, 2006 | 07:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Jimmeh
To tell the truth, I haven't seen any improvement in my speed with it...I have a cable connection, and I am running that on a 54 MBps wireless connection. I haven't had any timeouts on my web browser yet, but I haven't seen any speed increases.
I also installed it on a slow (850mhz Celeron, XP, 128mb) machine that's destined for a new project. I surfed for maybe 20 minutes and it "saved" 4 minutes. On my main machine (1.8Ghz, XP, 1gig) I surfed for an hour and it saved less than a minute. Both machines are on a wired 1.5mbps DSL line.
The point is that depending on where you're surfing (the more common websites will save more time), how fast your machine is, how fast your video card/driver is, how fast your net connection is, you'll get varying results. It's working from compressing web pages (text and images) and getting the client to uncompress the page and render it as a single BLOB. A lot of stuff falls into the "time saving" math.
May 30, 2006 | 03:40 AM
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Originally Posted by OutdoorLiving
In this age of DSL/Broadband, etc. How many of us really need an "Accelerator"?
I have Comcast cables 6 megabit connection.
They have higher, but I do not need it.
All of the speed tests I take show me getting around 9.5K megabit, that is very fast.
http://www.dslreports.com/stest
My favorite site for testing
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
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