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Accelerator Support
A) Getting Started
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A) Getting Started
The following section outlines what the end-user will experience when downloading, installing and running Avalon Works Accelerator Version 3.1.
Minimum system requirements:
The minimum system requirements for a customer to run the Avalon Works Accelerator are as follows:
Windows Operating Systems:
Windows 95b w/ Winsock2
Windows 98
Windows 98SE
Windows Millennium Edition (Windows ME)
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 2000
Windows XP
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Macintosh Operating System:
OS X 10.2 or later
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Pentium 200MHz (or equivalent)
64MB RAM,
at least 5MB of hard-drive space.
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PowerPC G3 processor
333MHz
128MB RAM
6MB of hard drive space.
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Web Browser:
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Web Browser:
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Internet Explorer 4.0 (or later)
Netscape Communicator 6.0 (or later)
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Safari 1.0 or later
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SlipStream accelerates your Internet access through proprietary text and image compression, content caching and other network optimizations.
If you have a slow Internet connection (such as a dial-up or wireless connection) with bandwidth of less than 300Kbps, you will experience a significant degree of acceleration using SlipStream.
Avalon Works Accelerator significantly speeds up web page access. To achieve this speed up, proprietary lossless compression is applied to text, html, xml, javascript and style sheets. Proprietary image compression is applied to gif images, jpeg images and Flash content.
SlipStream also accelerates email traffic (POP3 and SMTP) using lossless compression.
SlipStream does NOT speed up file downloads (over FTP or file sharing programs), streaming audio/video and HTTPS (secure web sites).
1. Download.
- Download the installer to your desktop.
- Once the download has completed, proceed to Step 2.
2. Install.
- See detailed installation instructions
- On your Desktop you will find an icon called "SlipStreamInstaller".
- Double-click the icon to start the installation procedure.
- Once the installation finishes you will be prompted for a username and password. Enter the username and password provided to you by your ISP.
- To avoid having to keep entering your username and password each time, ensure that the "Save Password" box is checked and then proceed to Step 3.
3. Starting SlipStream.
- Avalon Works Accelerator is automatically started when your computer starts up.
- Acceleration will begin as soon as a supported browser (such as Internet Explorer or Netscape) or a supported email client (such as Microsoft Outlook or Eudora) is started.
- On some Windows platforms a bubble icon will appear when the SlipStream Service has been established. On all other Windows platforms, you can verify that SlipStream Service has been established by hovering over the SlipStream tray icon (you should see a "SlipStream Service Enabled..." message).
4. Using SlipStream.
- Browse the web or download email as you normally would.
- Your web access or email access will be automatically accelerated by Avalon Works Accelerator.
- If you desire to stop the application, select Stop SlipStream from the pop-up menu, or if you desire to exit the application completely, click Exit from the pop-up menu.
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