About CSInet Accelerated Dial-Up
- What is Accelerated Dial-Up?
Accelerated Dial-Up is a way to speed up your browsing! Using technologies like Image Compression, Cache, and Proxies we can provide the fastest browsing speed possible to our Dial-Up customers. CSInet uses the Propel Dial-Up Accelerator software to increase your browsing experience.
- How much extra does Accelerated Dial-Up cost?
The surprisingly low cost of nothing! We offer the Dial-Up Accelerator software free to all of our Dial-Up customers. This includes our existing customers, as well as any new customers!
- No Really, how much does it cost?
Really, CSInet provides Accelerated Dial-Up FREE to all of our Dial-Up Customers.
- What are the systems requirements for Accelerated Dial-Up?
In order to access our standard Dial-Up service, you will need any internet-ready device with a modem, and access to a telephone line. System requirements for the CSInet Accelerated Dial-Up software are listed below.
 Windows 95/98/NT 4.0/2000/ME/XP/Vista
Internet Explorer 5.0 or later / Firefox
25 Megs Hard Disk Space (135 Recommended)
32 MB RAM (64 MB highly recommended)
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OS X 10.2 or Higher
Internet Explorer 5.2 or later or Safari 1.2 or later
25 Megs Hard Disk Space (135 Recommended)
128 MB RAM
(256 MB highly recommended)
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- How does it work?
CSInet Accelerated Dial-Up is designed to provide maximum acceleration for all web sites and additional acceleration for the web sites you visit regularly. So, the more you surf, the faster your favorite pages will load!
Specifically, CSInet Accelerated Dial-Up speeds up the delivery of web pages five ways:
Compression. Images and other graphic objects are compressed by removing some of the image detail. This results in dramatically smaller images that are delivered to your computer much quicker.
You may set your own default level of graphic compression through the Propel Icon Menu. You may also right click on any image or Web page and select the menu item to refresh in the image or Web page in full quality.
Caching. Propel intelligently retains and reuses Web pages and page elements that have previously been sent to your desktop.
Persistent Connections. CSInet Accelerated Dial-Up optimizes the communication between your modem and our network of servers. This eliminates the time wasted re-establishing and closing TCP/IP connections.
Chunk Encoding with Parallel Connections. When a user begins to download a file larger than 100KB, this feature downloads different segments of the same file from different locations.
Optional Content Filtering. CSInet Accelerated Dial-Up lets you block unsolicited content, such as pop-up ads and in-page ads. Blocking these ads causes Web pages to load faster.
Pop-up Windows. (Windows Only). CSInet Accelerated Dial-Up can block pop-up and pop-under windows that clutter your screen and slow down your surfing.
In-page Ads CSInet Accelerated Dial-Up can block most advertisements that appear on Web pages. When an ad is blocked, it is replaced with a light gray box on the Web page to make sure that Web pages maintain their intended design. You can easily view blocked ads by right clicking on the gray box. As with pop-up blocking, you can turn this feature on and off any time you like.
- How fast is it?
Using maximum graphics acceleration, a first-time visit to a Web page with Propel Accelerator
will be up to 3 times faster, with an average first-time visit greater than 2x.
Subsequent visits to the same page will be up to
5 times faster.
Here is an example of tests with and without Propel Accelerator:
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*Before Propel |
*With Propel |
How much Faster? |
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Ebay.com |
11.65 seconds |
2.97 seconds |
3.92 X faster! |
USAToday.com |
32.43 seconds |
3.77 seconds |
8.60 X faster! |
Mapquest.com |
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6.10 X faster! |
Monster.com |
11.74 seconds |
3.04 seconds |
3.86 X faster! |
CNN.com |
11.68 seconds |
2.26 seconds |
5.17 X faster! |
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- What will be accelerated?
All text - HTML, markup, and javascript
Most graphics & photos - including jpeg and gif images
Most banner ads - including animated gif images and Macromedia Flash content
CSInet's Online Email Web Access and all other browser-based emails**
POP3 and IMAP** protocol emails and attachments
- What stays the same?
Secure pages, such as those used for online banking and credit card forms and pages accessed over VPN. Why this is actually a good thing.
Why doesn't Propel accelerate HTTPS?
Technically, to accelerate HTTPS it would have to be circumvented by actively breaking the protocols in use and spoofing the desired destination site. However, doing this would create a break in the security of the HTTPS protocol, potentially allowing the logging and clear text visibility of the user's private data, such as credit card numbers, PIN codes, and bank access information. Propel Accelerator does not accelerate HTTPS traffic because this level of security risk would be unacceptable to our end users.
Streaming media, and audio and video files
Why not compress streaming media?
Propel does not compress streaming media because video files and audio files delivered in the streaming format have already been compressed to the extent possible. To attempt further compression would degrade the streaming media past an acceptable level.
Files downloaded outside your browser using ftp
About CSInet
Get Connected
- I am interested in the Internet, where do I go from here?
You can sign-up over the phone or you can Sign-Up Online. Give us a quick call so we can verify your information and you will be online in minutes. You can call us at 326.5252 (Local) - 1.888.CSINET.1 (Nationwide).
- What payment options do I have?
We offer a monthly and a yearly Dial-Up access plan. Visit the Pricing section for more information.
You can pay with credit card, checking or your savings account*. You pay the pro-rate for the remaining of the month. From there it's auto-debited from your account at the beginning of each month. (*Note: The pro-rate will need to be paid using a credit card or a checking account if its done over the phone).
- Do you send me an invoice each month?
No, the payment is automatically taken out on the first of each month. No bills to worry about--its all done for you.
- What if I just want to try your service out for 1 month?
When you sign up for a Dial-Up account mention you would like to only try it for a month and we can put a cancellation in right away so it will automatically be cancelled at the end of the month.
- What if I travel to other locations, can I still use your service?
Yes!, we provide Internet access Nationwide. Visit our Nationwide section to see what's local in the area you will be visiting.
- Can I connect to the Internet more than once at the same time?
No, you may only establish one connection at a time using one account. You may signup for additional accounts if you want to use the Internet using multiple computers at the same time.
Support
- If I have questions about the Internet, what kind of help do you provide?
You can call us at 326.5252 (Local) - 1.888.CSINET.1 (Nationwide) for Internet Technical Support. You can also email Technical Support from here and visit our Technical Support section for online help with your questions.
- Can I still check my email if you don't provide a local number for my area?
Yes, just bring up www.csinet.net and click on the 'Check E-Mail' link and log on.
* Average time calculated based on loading the home page. First time visit to a Web page loads on average 2 times faster. Subsequent visits to the page load, on average, 3 times faster. CSInet has no affiliation with any of the listed websites.
** CSInet does provide support for third party applications and protocols. This includes, but is not limited to: non-CSInet browser based email, IMAP mail protocols, and third party email protocols.
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