ConnectTo.Net HS^tm

ConnectTo.Net HS^tm improves your browsing experience by dramatically accelerating the delivery of Web pages to your PC. Our unique combination of intelligent browser caching, compression technology, and edge caching enables Web pages to be delivered to your browser with minimal latency at maximum speeds over your existing dial-up connection. As a result, you can expect a very noticeable improvement in response time.

• The ConnectTo.Net HS^tm Client Software runs in the background on your PC as a local proxy. The ConnectTo.Net HS^tm Client maintains a persistent connection to the ConnectTo.Net HS^tm Network in order to eliminate the connections that need to be established every time the browser initiates a request. The ConnectTo.Net HS^tm Client decodes and caches the content it receives from the ConnectTo.Net HS^tm Network before sending it to the Web browser.
• The ConnectTo.Net HS^tm Network sits between the ConnectTo.Net HS^tm Client running on your PC and the Web sites you are trying to reach. The ConnectTo.Net HS^tm Network consists of a collection of strategically deployed servers that manage connections, cache content, and encode data received from the destination sites. By doing so, the ConnectTo.Net HS^tm Network reduces the distance data must travel, and at the same time reduces the amount of data transmitted.

ConnectTo.Net HS^tm speeds up the delivery of Web pages in three ways:

• Compression. ConnectTo.Net HS^tm delivers text and graphics more efficiently, using a patent-pending compression technology that allows for intelligent encoding of Web pages and page elements sent to your browser.
• Caching. ConnectTo.Net HS^tm intelligently retains and re-uses Web pages and page elements that have previously been sent to your PC. That's why the longer ConnectTo.Net HS^tm is in use on your PC, the faster your Web pages will load.
• Persistent Connections. ConnectTo.Net HS^tm uses proprietary techniques to carefully manage and optimize the communication between your modem and our servers using a persistent connection.

The table below shows some popular Web site pages and the range of acceleration you should expect to see from ConnectTo.Net HS^tm. These numbers were obtained using the ConnectTo.Net HS^tm Performance Test Tool.

An easy way to understand what ConnectTo.Net HS^tm does is to consider a simplified example.

Using maximum graphics acceleration, a first-time visit to a Web page with ConnectTo.Net HS^tm
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 ConnectTo.Net HS^tm Client to the ConnectTo.Net HS^tm Network.
• The ConnectTo.Net HS^tm 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 ConnectTo.Net HS^tm 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 ConnectTo.Net HS^tm Client to theConnectTo.Net HS^tm Network.
• The ConnectTo.Net HS^tm 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 ConnectTo.Net HS^tm 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 ConnectTo.Net HS^tm Client and delivered to the Web browser.

ConnectTo.Net HS^tm is an Internet acceleration service for dial-up users that speeds up the delivery of static and dynamic Web pages across the entire Internet, including the last mile.

The service significantly improves a user's browsing experience, while remaining universally deployable and completely transparent to ISPs and destination sites.