What is FastNet?
FASTNET Accelerated speeds up your Internet experience, by up
to six times, using your existing dialup phone line and modem.
You do not require any extra equipment. FASTNET allows you to
surf at near DSL speed, making FASTNET the high-speed Internet
solution with the convenience of dial-up. It is easy to install,
runs seamlessly and doesn't alter any of your existing software.
You can also control the amount of compression vs. speed gain
yourself.
What gets accelerated?
FASTNET compresses the following elements of web pages in
order to send the information to your computer faster:
- Web pages - HTML markup and JavaScript
- Graphics including JPEG and GIF images
- Text
- Web Based E-mail.
What will not be accelerated?
Although FASTNET is able to compress many different types of
online data, there are a few which cannot be accelerated:
- Streaming media, audio and video files
- Secure pages, such as those used for online banking and
credit card forms
- Files and attachments such as music or digital photos.
- Normal Email
Additional NOTE: In most cases,
FastNet will accelerate most anything that
runs through your web browser. Anything that
does not work through the web browser will not
be accelerated. So in short, FastNet is
designed, and meant to speed up web browsing
only. You will not notice any speed difference
in non browser based online games, FTP file
transfers, FrontPage publishing, Outlook
Express Email or anything else that does not
operate through the web browser.
How does it work?
With traditional dialup methods, the text and graphics that
make up Web pages get sent from the server to you over your
phone line. Because of the large amount of data required to be
sent, this process can be painfully slow. FASTNET compresses
this data using a proprietary technology, and sends it over your
existing dialup phone line. This compression process allows a
smaller amount data to be sent – up to six times less – making
the download time of your web pages and your online experience
that much faster. As an added download time reducer, FASTNET
stores elements of the Web sites you visit frequently so you do
not have to re-download them every time you visit these sites.
FASTNET System Requirements
- Dialup Internet Connection
- Supported Internet Browser:
IE 5+ or Netscape Navigator 4.7 +.
Opera or Mozilla require additional configuration.
- Windows OS:
Pentium PC 200MHz or better with Windows 98, ME, 2000, or XP
(Mac and Linux are currently not supported).
- Available Disk space: 5 MB
- System Memory (RAM): 64 MB of RAM
recommended
Megatron Data Systems FASTNET Recommend System Requirements
- Dialup Internet Connection 33.6K or
better.
- Supported Internet Browser:
IE 5+ or Netscape Navigator 4.7 +.
Opera or Mozilla require additional configuration.
- Windows OS:
Pentium PC 200MHz or better with Windows 98, ME, 2000, or XP
(Mac and Linux are currently not supported).
- Available Disk space: 10 MB
- System Memory (RAM): 64 MB of RAM
recommended
- High End Graphics card: with 32 MB of video ram.
- For Windows 2000 users: Recommend ram be at least
128MB and Processor speed at least 500MHz or better.
- For Windows XP users: Recommended ram be at least
256 MB and a processor speed of 1GHz or better.
In short, the more modern the operating
system, the more memory, and processor speed
your computer must have.
We are not saying the FASTNET service will not run on slower
computers, it does, but usage habits of the computer user effect
the performance of the FASTNET software. Computers running a lot
of background applications, infected with viruses, or have spy
ware products installed will adversely effect the performance of
the software. Newer computers** are far less likely to exhibit
these problems because they have not been used as long.
