SpeedWeb Guide

Using the SpeedWeb Accelerator

• Launching SpeedWeb Web Accelerator
• Accessing the User Interface
• Setting Username and Password Information
• Changing Image Quality Settings
• Getting Full Image Quality
• Using the Pop-Up Blocker Settings
• Starting and Stopping
• Closing SpeedWeb Web Accelerator

Advanced Options

• Changing Your Connection Settings
• Bypassing SpeedWeb Web Accelerator for selected sites
• Accelerating E-mail
• View Your Acceleration Statistics
• Accessing Product Version Information
• Changing Autoupdate Settings
• Uninstalling SlipStrem Web Accelerator

If SlipStream Web Accelerator is not running and you need to launch it manually, an icon titled SlipStream Web Accelerator is located in the Windows Start Menu under the SlipStream folder. The SlipStream taskbar icon appears in the Windows taskbar to you show you it is running.

To access the user interface features, click on the SlipStream Web Accelerator icon in the system tray. A pop-up menu will appear, providing access to all the features of the product. Selecting and single-clicking any of the menu items will access that particular feature.

1. Right-click on the SlipStream Web Accelerator taskbar icon and select Settings... from the menu.
2. Click on the Connection tab.
3. Enter your username (i.e. joeuser, no @calweb.com) and password in the fields provided. To avoid having to do this each time you connect, ensure that the Save password box is checked.
4. To save your settings, press OK.

You can easily obtain full image quality for a particular image (described below), so don't be overly conservative about lowering your image quality setting.

1. Right-click on the SlipStream Web Accelerator system tray icon. See the guide if you are unsure how to do this.
2. Select Settings....
3. Select the Image Quality tab.
4. Use the slider bar to adjust the image quality setting.
5. Press OK to save the settings.

While browsing, if you would like to request the full quality image, simply right-click on the desired image from within Internet Explorer and select Show Original Image from the menu. The full quality image will appear in place of the lower quality image.

If you want to see the full quality version of all images on the current page, simply right-click on any image from within Internet Explorer and select Show All Original Images from the menu.

A limited number of web sites require pop-ups to function correctly. SlipStream Web Accelerator allows you to specify a "White List" of sites where pop-ups will not be blocked.

You can also see a list of all pop-ups that were blocked. This information is useful if you suspect a web site is not functioning properly because pop-ups are being blocked.

Enabling and Disabling the Pop-Up Blocker
1. Right-click on the SlipStream Web Accelerator system tray icon. See the interface section of the product guide if you are unsure how to do this.
2. Select Pop-Up Blocker....
3. Select the Options tab.
4. To hear a beep whenever a pop-up is blocked, check Notify blocked pop-up by PC speaker beep.
5. To disable the blocking of floating Flash advertisements, uncheck Block Floating Flash-Ads.
6. To disable all pop-up blocking for all sites, uncheck Enable PopUp Blocker.
7. Press OK to save the settings.

Disabling the Pop-Up Blocker for Specific Sites
1. Right-click on the SlipStream Web Accelerator system tray icon. See the interface section of the product guide if you are unsure how to do this.
2. Select Pop-Up Blocker....
3. Select the White List tab.
4. Use the Add, Remove, and Remove All buttons to manipulate the White List.
5. Press OK to save the settings.

Viewing the Pop-Up Blocker Log
1. Right-click on the SlipStream Web Accelerator system tray icon. See the interface section of the product guide if you are unsure how to do this.
2. Select Pop-Up Blocker....
3. Select the Logging tab.
4. To add a web site to the White List so that pop-ups are no longer blocked from that site, right-click on the site and click Add to Whitelist.

Adding Sites to the White List
You can add sites to the White List within the Pop-Up Blocker dialogs or from within Internet Explorer.

1. Right-click on any text while browsing within Internet Explorer.
2. Select Add to Whitelist from the menu to add the current site to the White List.

To Stop
If you are connected and you want to manually disconnect, right-click on the SlipStream Web Accelerator system tray icon to access the pop-up menu. Select the menu item Stop SlipStream. The SlipStream system tray icon will now have a red "X" through it.

To Start
If SlipStream is stopped and you want to manually start the service, right-click on the SlipStream Web Accelerator system tray icon to access the pop-up menu. Select the menu item Start SlipStream. The red "X" through the SlipStream system tray icon will disappear.

Note: SlipStream Web Accelerator will automatically launch again the next time you reboot your computer. If you do not want this to occur, delete the SpeedWeb from the Startup group in Windows.

1. Click on the SlipStream Web Accelerator system tray icon to access the pop-up menu.
2. Select Settings....
3. Click on the Connection tab.
4. Press Advanced....
5. Change the Remote Server Hostname and Server Port to the ones CalWeb provides you. In most cases, it is unnecessary to change the Local Listening Port.
6. Press OK to close the Connection dialog box.
7. Press OK to save your new connection settings. These settings will be used next time you connect with SlipStream Web Accelerator.

• If you have already defined a proxy exclusion list in your web browser, select Use browser's proxy exclusion settings to configure SlipStream Web Accelerator to exclude these sites as well. Note: Netscape does not support the wildcard (*) operator.
• You may also Specify a proxy exclusion list by selecting this option. In the given text field, list all the web sites, separated by semicolons, that you wish to bypass SlipStream Web Acceleration.

Stop and then start SlipStream Web Accelerator.

To enable email acceleration:

1. Right-click on the SlipStream Web Accelerator system tray icon. See the interface section of the guide if you are unsure how to do this.
2. Select Settings....
3. Select the Email tab.
4. Select Enable for all applications.
5. Press OK to save the settings. The changes will take effect the next time SlipStream Web Accelerator and your mail client are restarted.

1. Click on the SlipStream Web Accelerator taskbar icon to access the pop-up menu.
2. Select Statistics..., to display the Statistics summary dialog.
3. Click Reset to reset the statistics. You may do so at anytime while browsing without affecting SlipStream Web Accelerator's performance or operation.
4. Click the Details button to view more detailed statistics information. You will see a summary of the compression and savings ratio similar to the screen to the right. The values are as follows:

• Original Data - Size of the original (uncompressed) data.
• Actual Data - Amount of data sent by SlipStream Web Accelerator.
• Savings Ratio - Factor of reduction in data. E.g. A savings ratio of 4.00 means your connection is 4 times faster than a normal connection on average.
• Text-based - This row contains compression information regarding text-based content.
• Graphics - Contains compression information regarding graphical content. The compression varies with the setting of the Image Quality in the SpeedWeb settings menu.
• Others - Contains information regarding content that is neither text nor graphical.
• Upstream - Lists the total original and compressed amounts of data uploaded.

1. Open the Settings dialog.
2. Click on the Update tab.
3. Select Update Now to upgrade to the latest version.
4. Press OK to save the settings.

1. Under the Windows Control Panel, select Add or Remove Programs.
2. Select SlipStream Web Accelerator and click Remove.
3. The uninstaller will launch and guide you through the uninstallation procedure.

Uninstalling the SpeedWeb software does not automatically deactivate your SpeedWeb service with CalWeb. You will need to contact our technical support to have the SpeedWeb service disabled from your account. Deactivations of the SpeedWeb service take place at the end of the calendar month.
Last revised January 11th, 2004.