Broadband Speed Accelerator From Google
Google is a company which claims to revolutionize the way people use the internet. The company has launched a number of products for this purpose. Easily the best product from the company is Google Web Accelerator. It is a complete broadband speed accelerator which can be used with any almost every popular web browser to make the web surfing faster and snappier. The solution is powered by the computer network of Google which is spread all over the world. It is available for Windows platform.
The solution works on a very simple principle. Google has deployed special servers which are dedicated to handling the Google Web Accelerator traffic. The browser on user's computer sends the page request to these dedicated servers. These servers store copies of the frequently stored web pages. These copies are updated regularly. In case of any changes being made to the web page, the updated copy is downloaded to the user's computer.
Apart form this the web accelerator also makes use of advanced pre-fetching algorithms. This means that the page becomes instantly available when you click on it. Moreover the Web Accelerator servers compress the data before they send it to the user's computer. This makes the solution useful even for the people who have data capped connections. All in all the solution improves the management of the user's computer by leaps and bounds when it is active.
Google Web Accelerator works as a proxy between your computer and the Internet. It is possible to use the solution with any browser. The developer has provided automatic proxy configuration for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Other browsers have to be manually configured to route the traffic through the proxy installed by the solution. Other than that you have to make no differences in the configuration provided by Internet Service Provider. There are a number of things which you need to consider when you get Google Web Accelerator. First thing is that this is a product of Google Labs. It is not a production product. The solution graded to be in the beta testing phase. Make sure that you keep this in mind before you go for this solution. One more thing to be considered is that this software does not support HTTPS connection. HTTPS connections are encrypted HTTP connections which do not travel through the port number 80. All in all this broadband speed accelerator from Google is a great tool by itself. Every tester says that the solution can deliver speed improvement out of the box but you would have to run a number of tweaks and tests to get the best out of it.
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