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Stop Icon

This icon will be displayed in the Programs Menu in order to allow the user to stop the Intouch Acceleration software.

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What is Intouch Accelerator?

Intouch Accelerator is simply the fastest Web accelerator on the market today! Intouch Accelerator increases the speed of Web browsing with Dial Up Internet.

Web pages typically load 3x to 7x faster, and sometimes 25x faster or more, while still delivering near original quality final images. *

* Timing and image samples are based on a representative set of benchmarking photo gallery pages loaded over dial-up. Actual times and quality will vary based on where and how users surf.

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On what types of sites does Intouch Accelerator work best?

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How Does Intouch Accelerator Work?

Compression - Intouch Accelerator introduces new compression techniques, which take acceleration to new levels, and provides better performance than competing solutions.   This results in a faster page load times and an overall improved Internet performance.

Connection Optimization - Intouch Accelerator optimizes the communication between your Internet connection and our network of servers. This eliminates the time wasted re-establishing and closing TCP/IP connections.

Caching - Intouch Accelerator intelligently retains and reuses Web pages and page elements that have previously been sent to your computer.

Content Filtering - Intouch Accelerator lets you block unsolicited content, such as pop-up ads and in-page ads. Blocking these ads causes Web pages to load faster.

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What is Dynamic Imaging?

Intouch Accelerator delivers fully usable Web pages to end users in significantly less time, without requiring users to settle for tradeoffs between image quality and page load speeds. With Dynamic Imaging, pages initially appear with lower quality preview images, allowing users to navigate through pages as quickly as possible. Image quality then improves automatically and dynamically in the background whenever a user pauses to view the contents of a page. Intouch's image-compression technology allows both preview and incremental image data to be downloaded in the shortest amount of time with the least amount of network overhead.

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How does compression affect data use?

Intouch Accelerator introduces new compression techniques which take acceleration to new levels and provide better performance. Overall Web surfing and email data reduction can range from 70% to 90% depending on the range of final graphics qualities used. This provides compelling data reduction advantages and results in correspondingly faster page load times for end-users.

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What content type is accelerated?

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What content type is not accelerated?

Secure Pages Accelerating HTTPS requires breaking the protocols in use and spoofing the desired destination site. However, doing this creates a break in the security of the HTTPS protocol, potentially allowing the logging and clear text visibility of the user's private data. For this reason, Intouch Accelerator does not accelerate HTTPS traffic. This level of security risk would be unacceptable to our end users.

FTP Downloads Files downloaded outside your browser.

Streaming Media / Audio & Video Files Intouch does not compress streaming media because audio and video files have already been compressed to the extent possible. Further compression would degrade the streaming media past an acceptable level.

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What are the end-user System Requirements?

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Using Intouch Accelerator with Mozilla Firefox web brower.

Some configuration of Mozilla is needed before it can be used with Intouch Accelerator.  Please refer to the instructions for the version of Firefox that you are using (below):
 

Windows steps for FireFox version 3.0 browser

1.Click on the Tools
2.Click on Options
3.Within Advanced click on the Network tab , then click on the Settings button in the Connection section
4.Click the radio button Manual proxy configuration
Click in the box HTTP Proxy and enter: localhost
5.In the Port area enter the Intouch Accelerator port number: 8080
6.Click OK.
 

Windows steps for FireFox version 2.0 browser

1.Click on the Tools
2.Click on Options
3.Within Advanced click on Settings button in the Connections section

4.Click the radio button Manual proxy configuration
Click in the box HTTP Proxy and enter: localhost
5.In the Port area enter the Intouch Accelerator port number: 8080
6.Click OK.
 

Windows steps for Mozilla FireFox version 1.x browser

1.Click on the Tools
2.Click on Options
3.Within General click on Connection settings
4.Click the radio button Manual proxy configuration
Click in the box HTTP Proxy and enter: localhost
5.In the Port area enter the Intouch Accelerator port number: 8080
6.Click OK.
 

Windows steps for standard Mozilla browser

1.Click on the Mozilla Edit menu.
2.Select Preferences...
3.Click on the Advanced item
4.Click Proxies
5.Make sure that the Manual proxy configuration checkbox at the bottom is checked.
6.Click in the box HTTP Proxy and enter: localhost
7.In the Port area enter the Intouch Accelerator port number: 8080
8.Click OK.

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