
Accelerate your Internet connection - Netdial or Netband - FREE!
NEW VERSION OF FASTBAND - powered by PROPEL / ACCELERATOR 6.0:
Fastest Internet Acceleration and Highest Quality Web Images for Windows and Macintosh! (OS X 10.2 and later)
The new Propel Accelerator 5.0 Client software has several news
features, including:
+ An average of 24 percent improvement in image acceleration over Propel
Accelerator 4.1
+ Accelerated sending of email and attachments
+ New acceleration support for the IMAP email protocol
+ Improved image compression for smaller, faster and sharper images, using a new
proprietary compression algorithm
+ Improved text compression for smaller and faster lossless compression.
DOWNLOAD THE WINDOWS VERSION HERE!!!
DOWNLOAD THE MAC VERSION HERE!!! (OS X 10.2 and later)
Fastband is the fastest Web Accelerator on the market! Caribe.Net's Fastband works with your existing Netdial or Netband connection, allowing you to increase your surfing speed up to 5 times. So, pages that previously took almost 30 seconds to load, can now be viewed in less than 7 seconds, on average.
For Netdial users, Caribe.Net's Fastband is the next best thing to Netband at a fraction of the price. Fastband is:
Why do I need Fastband? Save time. While 30 seconds doesn't sound like a lot of time, it can feel like an eternity if you're waiting for a Web page to load. With Fastband, most pages can be viewed in less than 7 seconds!
Save money. Broadband options like DSL and cable are expensive. For about the price of one month of DSL, you can get a full year of accelerated Internet speed using your existing dial-up connection!
Always available. DSL and other broadband solutions are not yet available nationwide. However, Fastband works wherever there is a phone line!
Easy to use. No new hardware or special equipment to install. Just download the Fastband powered by Propel software to your PC and surf up to 5x faster!
How does it work?
Fastband is designed to provide maximum acceleration for the Web sites you visit regularly. So, the more you surf, the faster your favorite pages will load! Specifically, Fastband speeds up the delivery of Web pages in three ways:
How fast is it? With Fastband, Web pages load an average of 3 to 5 times faster. The more regularly you visit specific Web sites, the better the performance you will receive.
| Popular Web Sites | *Before Fastband | *With Fastband | How much Faster with Fastband? |
| Ebay | 11.65 seconds | 2.97 seconds | 3.92 X faster! |
| USA Today | 32.43 seconds | 3.77 seconds | 8.60 X faster! |
| Mapquest.com | 30.56 seconds | 5.01 seconds | 6.10 X faster! |
| Monster.com | 11.74 seconds | 3.04 seconds | 3.86 X faster! |
| CNN | 11.68 seconds | 2.26 seconds | 5.17 X faster! |
| *Average time calculated based on loading the
home page. First time visit to a Web page loads on average 2 times faster.
Subsequent visits to the page load, on average, 3 times faster. |
What Gets Accelerated? Most Web content will be accelerated, but there are certain execeptions:
| All text-HTML, markup and javascript | Streaming media, audio and video files |
| Most graphics and photos-including jpeg and gif images and most Flash images and animation | Secure pages, such as those used for online banking and credit card forms |
| Most banner ads | MP3 files and executable programs |
| All browser-based emails | |
| All email that contain images-even when read in a dedicated email program |