ONSPEED is a software program designed to accelerate an internet connection using compression techniques.

OnSpeed primarily improves the speed of an internet connection, including dial-up, wireless, low-speed broadband, and mobile connections such as 3G

3G

3G or 3rd generation mobile telecommunications is a generation of standards for mobile phones and mobile telecommunication services fulfilling the International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 specifications by the International Telecommunication Union...

, 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. OnSpeed does not actually replace an existing internet connection and therefore it is essential that its users keep their existing ISP in order for it to function.

The OnSpeed software works by compressing text and graphics contained on any website (or within emails). Each internet access is routed through their UK, US, South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

 and India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n based servers

Server (computing)

In the context of client-server architecture, a server is a computer program running to serve the requests of other programs, the "clients". Thus, the "server" performs some computational task on behalf of "clients"...

, which then compress the data before transmitting them to a computer.

At the moment 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

Macromedia

Macromedia was an American graphics and web development software company headquartered in San Francisco, California that produced such products as Flash and Dreamweaver. Its rival, Adobe Systems, acquired Macromedia on December 3, 2005 and controls the line of Macromedia...

 Flash. It does not accelerate secure websites or certain files such as music and video files (MP3

MP3

MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...

, AVI

Audio Video Interleave

Audio Video Interleave , known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback...

 etc).

ONSPEED Mobile

ONSPEED also provides a service for mobile phone users using a GPRS/UMTS connection. Operating in a similar way to its PC service, it accelerates and resizes most websites so they can be viewed easily on a mobile phone.

Proxies

AOL

AOL

AOL Inc. is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services...

 customers often experience problems with the service due to AOL's proxy

Proxy server

In computer networks, a proxy server is a server that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers. A client connects to the proxy server, requesting some service, such as a file, connection, web page, or other resource available from a different server...

 settings. However, OnSpeed's website states that AOL customers may still use the service providing they use an alternative browser such as Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. , Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 25% of worldwide usage share of web browsers...

.

OnSpeed claims that the software can be used in any country worldwide, however this is not entirely true. OnSpeed usually will not work in certain African and Middle Eastern countries that connect to the Internet via a forced proxy.

External links

• OnSpeed website
• Full Review of OnSpeed at www.rwapservices.co.uk