How does SMIG Lightning Web Accelerator work?
SMIG Lightning accelerates your Internet access through proprietary text and image compression, content caching and other network optimizations. top • Will I benefit from using SMIG Lightning Web Accelerator? 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 SMIG Lightning. top • What types of content does SMIG Lightning Web Accelerator speed up? SMIG Lightning Web 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. SMIG Lightning also accelerates email traffic (POP3 and SMTP)using lossless compression. SMIG Lightning does NOT speed up file downloads (over FTP or file sharing programs), streaming audio/video and HTTPS (secure web sites).