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MERR.COM WEB ACCELERATOR

Boost your internet experience by up to 7x! Now you can surf at near DSL speeds and still keep your dial-up connection.

What is Merr.com's Slipstream Accelerator?

What gets accelerated?
Merr.com's Slipstream Accelerator compresses the following elements of web pages and email in order to send the information to your computer faster:

  • Web pages – HTML markup and JavaScript
  • Graphics including JPEG and GIF images
  • Text
  • Passive FTP
  • E-mail - SMTP, POP, IMAP (including file attachments!)

What will not be accelerated?
Although Merr.com's Slipstream Accelerator is able to compress many different types of online data, there are a few which cannot be accelerated:

  • Streaming media, audio and video files
  • Secure pages, such as those used for online banking and credit card forms

Additional Features
Other value-added features of the accelerator software include:

  • Pop-Up Blocker - block annoying pop-up advertisements while surfing!
  • Banner-Ad Blocking - Stop the ads, and surf faster!
  • Integrated Diagnostic Support Tool

What does it cost?

Pricing

Add Merr.com's Slipstream Accelerator to your existing Merr.com Internet access for:

$3.95 per month: Customer makes one $47.40 (plus tax) annual payment.

$4.95 per month (plus tax):

a.     Email: We email a bill monthly, customer makes a payment within 30 days.

b.     Automatic monthly payments from credit card or echeck.

$6.95 per month (plus tax): We mail a bill monthly using the US mail, customer makes a payment within 30 days.

How does it work?

With traditional dial-up methods, the text and graphics that make up web pages get sent from the server to you over your phone line. Because of the large amount of data required to be sent, this process can be painfully slow. Merr.com's Slipstream Accelerator compresses this data using a proprietary technology, and sends it over your existing dialup phone line. This compression process allows a smaller amount data to be sent – up to five times less – making the download time of your web pages and your online experience that much faster. As an added download time reducer, Merr.com's Slipstream Accelerator stores elements of the web sites you visit frequently eliminating the need to re-download them every time you visit these sites.

System Requirements

Windows Operating Systems: Macintosh Operating System:
  • Windows 95b w/ Winsock2
  • Windows 98
  • Windows 98SE
  • Windows Millennium Edition (Windows ME)
  • Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6
  • Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
  • Windows XP
  • Windows XP Service Pack 2
  • Windows Vista
  • Pentium 200MHz (or equivalent)
  • 64MB RAM
  • at least 11 MB of hard-drive space
  • OS X 10.2 or later
  • PowerPC G3 processor
  • 333MHz
  • 128MB RAM
  • 6MB of hard drive space.
Web Browser: Web Browser:
  • Internet Explorer 5.0 and later
  • Netscape Communicator 6.0 and later
  • Firefox 0.9 and later
  • Mozilla 1.4 and later
  • Opera 7.6 and later (only with Accelerator version 4 and later)
  • Safari 1.0 or later

Demo

Click here to see a demo.

Frequently Asked Questions

Click here to view Frequently Asked Questions about Merr.com's Slipstream Accelerator

Sign Up/Set up

Call us anytime at 1-877-493-9470 to sign up for Merr.com's Slipstream Accelerator service. Once you've signed up and we have given you a username and password, download the software here.

We are currently not offering Slipstream Accelerator service to new MacIntosh customers.