OnSpeed
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Onspeed (stylised as ONSPEED) was[1] a web accelerator service designed to accelerate an internet connection using compression techniques.
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Onspeed primarily improves the speed of an internet connection, including dial-up, wireless, low-speed broadband, and mobile connections such as 3G, GPRS and UMTS. The Onspeed software is installed onto the user's hard drive and using the existing ISP connection to the internet, it utilises data compression techniques to process a website, before it is transmitted by the user's ISP to their computer.
The Onspeed software works by compressing text and graphics contained on any website (or within emails). Each internet access is routed through their UK, United States, South Africa and Indian based servers, which then compress the data before transmitting them to a computer.
Onspeed has dedicated algorithms for compressing the following web page elements (all protected by 9 pending patents): Photo-realistic images (e.g., JPEG, PNG, GIF, and BMP), Line Art and Drawings (e.g., GIF, BMP), Animated objects (GIF), HTML objects, Text, Office Documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), PDF Documents, and Macromedia Flash. It does not accelerate secure websites or certain files such as music and video files (MP3, AVI etc.).