The Airstream Accelerator is designed to provide maximum acceleration for the Web sites you visit regularly.

So, the more you surf, the faster your favorite pages will load!

Specifically, The Airstream Accelerator speeds up the delivery of Web pages four ways:

  • Compression. The Airstream 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. The Airstream Accelerator improves upon your browser's caching ability. Airstream intelligently retains and reuses Web pages and page elements that have previously been sent to your PC. That's why the longer Airstream Accelerator is in use on your PC, the faster your Web pages will load.
  • Persistent Connections. The Airstream 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.
  • Optional Content Filtering. The Airstream Accelerator lets you block unsolicited content, such as pop-up ads and in page ads, which contributes to long wait times.
An easy way to understand what the Airstream Accelerator does is to consider a simplified example.

Using maximum graphics acceleration, a first-time visit to a Web page with the Airstream Accelerator will be up to 3 times faster, with an average first-time visit greater than 2x.

For example, the first time you request the Amazon home page, the following events occur:
  • The request for the Web page is automatically routed by the Airstream Accelerator Client to the Airstream Acceleration Network.
  • The Airstream Acceleration Network retrieves the requested Web page from the Amazon Web site.
  • Elements of the Web page (both text and graphics) are encoded and cached before being sent to your PC.
  • These page elements are then decoded by the Airstream Accelerator Client, and assembled and delivered to the Web browser.

Subsequent visits to the same page will be up to 5 times faster

The next time you visit the Amazon home page (which may have changed since the last visit), the following events occur:

  • Your request for the Web page is automatically routed by the Airstream Accelerator Client to the Airstream Acceleration Network.
  • The Airstream Acceleration Network retrieves the requested Web page from the Amazon Web site. Having identified the page elements that had previously been retrieved in a prior visit, the Airstream Acceleration Network only compresses and transmits those components that changed.
  • Data already stored on your PC - plus any new decoded page elements - are assembled locally by the Airstream Accelerator Client and delivered to the Web browser.
 You are now ready to download the Airstream Accelerator. Complete the following three steps:
  1. If you have a Windows based computer click this link PC For MAC computers click here MAC Be sure to take note where you save this file and the name of the file.
  2. Locate the file you downloaded on your computer and double-click to begin the installation.
  3. If you have not already done so, contact maqs.net and inform them that you have downloaded the Airstream Accelerator and you would like to sign-up for this exciting new service. Please note that additionally monthly charges may apply.
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