What is High Speed Dial-Up?
Cyberhotline High Speed Dial up is an exciting new type of dial-up Internet access that accelerates your Web surfing experience using your existing phone jack and modem. NO additional equipment is required and there is NO waiting! It is the high-speed surfing solution with the convenience of dial-up. NEW! Now includes a pop-up blocker! Surfing the Web is even faster when you’re not downloading pop-up ads. 2. What gets Accelerated? Web pages – HTML markup and JavaScript Graphics including JPEG and GIF images Text E-mail on the Web 3. What is not 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 4 . How does it work? Web Pages with text and graphics are compressed on the our high end servers. They are then sent through the phone lines to your computer at a compressed file. Your computer then decompresses the file to make pages load faster. For example, a 100K
High speed dial-up Internet service is a type of Internet service that offers faster download speeds than typical dial-up service for some web functions. High speed dial-up often costs more than regular dial-up, but still less than many broadband connections. Those advertising such a service, claim that it can be up to five times faster than normal dial-up service in some cases. In reality, while it can speed up some processes, it cannot speed up all processes. High speed dial-up service works by employing a variety of different methods in order to make the Internet connection seem faster. It should be noted that the bandwidth over phone lines is determined by the phone line capacity. Therefore, the connection speed does not actually improve. Instead, the Internet service provider (ISP) uses shortcuts in establishing the communication, compression, filtering and caching in order to make the connection appear faster to the user. While web pages usually load faster, the connection itself
