vips web accelerator for modem users
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update:
1. fixed a engine crashing bug.
2. fixed big file uploading bug (eg, in web mail attachment).
3. the engine will be auto turn on at starting.
(you can download the updated installer from the url below, the file is vips1.exe. we are going to provide a update branch later.).
vips web accelerator is our product in development (targeted to narrow band user, but works for broadband also). Now it's going through beta testing and we would like to invite everyone interested in faster web accessing to test it out freely. From our internal testing, it showed around 2 times the normal speed on average.
Our vips web accelerator uses varies compression and optimization techniques to make the web pages as small as possible while trying to retain the quality. In some rear cases, you may notice some distortion but most time it's barely noticeable.
To download the client program, please go to http://www.surfision.com/download.htm (or http://www.zipaudio.com/cgi-bin/download.pl?EMAIL=direct to download directly). (our server is in singapore, so if you are not in singapore, it may not working for you. The client will work, but you may not see much improvement due to long network latency. But pls do give it a try.)
Rgds
i-Channel
PS. for singapore pacific internet user, due to some just discovered problem. pls change the server setting of our client program to
proxy.speedsurf.com.sg 8081
[This message has been edited by strabo (edited 04 December 2001).] -
How you guarantee that an application like yours won't send "hidden information" taken from our pc to your server?
Hmmm ... sorry ... but I heard many application like this before ... but I prefer to play "safe" ... -
well, i can assure you that there's no anything about you going to be send over to us. The client program needs to connect to our server as the porxy though(same as ur isp proxy). I have writeen most of the client program and cant remember it do anything more other than what u command it to do. i cant force you trust me anyway.
BTW, i am not intreseted in your info in any way if you are not a pretty girl
we are goint to selling our server and the client is a nessary evil .
Rgds
strabo -
VIPS – “SURF USING YOUR 56 KBPS DIAL UP MODEM AT BROADBAND LIKE SPEEDS”
Your main idea is to zip everything ... transfer it to client and let client unzip and display it ... so .. if I download *.ZIP file ... will it be faster ...?? it should be slower doesn't it? cos your application try to zip a zipped file which only wasting the time ... no offence ... but nice "plan" ... -
how can a 56k modem let u surf like broadband.
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your idea is about 50% correct. there are different ways to the compression to different type of files. and if you can see there's no point to "zip" a zipped file, i also can see it.
BTW, if you come to the web and only downloading zipped files. This thing really not for you, it wont make it much faster (maybe slightly faster, as our server is quite fast to the internet). It's for ppl to surf the net to find infomations, news, or post and read in this forum.
Rgds
strabo -
hmmm... agreeOriginally posted by strabo:your idea is about 50% correct. there are different ways to the compression to different type of files. and if you can see there's no point to "zip" a zipped file, i also can see it.
BTW, if you come to the web and only downloading zipped files. This thing really not for you, it wont make it much faster (maybe slightly faster, as our server is quite fast to the internet). It's for ppl to surf the net to find infomations, news, or post and read in this forum.
Rgds
strabo ... btw ... many apache web servers is built-in gzip module, even for its HTML (meaning that his HTML is zipped when transfered, and extracted upon reaching to user's browser) ... 
but ... the "plan" that you want to get money in the future ... that a little bit ... hmmm what to say ... ... usually I surf for free ... I use starhub ... and in office .. I use it for free (LAN with proxy) .. -
gzip is only one of the possible compression method and not good for music image ...., and how many using it? not much better since i built my perlscript gzip module a year ago. and by statistic 70% or more trafic is not html. so?
BTW, i dont care u surf free or not, we are not going to offer service ourself. we are going to sell servers to ppl want to offer the service. maybe u dont know many ppl still using 28.8 modem?
Rgds
strabo