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How fast is it?
Performance Boost. With Turbo Dial, 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.
Here is an example of tests we ran with and without Turbo Dial.
| Popular Web Sites |
*Before Turbo Dial |
*With Turbo Dial |
How much Faster? |
| 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 exceptions:
 What will be accelerated |
 What will *not* be accelerated |
| All text - HTML, markup, and javascript | Streaming media, and audio and video files |
| Most graphics & photos - including jpeg and gif images | Secure pages, such as those used for online banking and credit card forms and pages accessed over VPN |
| Most banner ads - including animated gif images and Macromedia Flash content | Files downloaded outside your browser using ftp |
| All browser-based emails | |
| All emails that contain images - even when read in a dedicated email program | |
| MP3 files, executables & other files - when downloaded from within your web browser (depending on the quality of your connection). | |
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