What is T-Booster good for?
In case you are paying a fee based on the amount of data you transfere, which is typical for mobile internet connections, like 3G or GPRS or UMTS OR when using a dedicated fast stationary connection, like DSL, Frame Relay, Synchroneous Line etc. You will immediately reduce the monthly bill from Your ISP because of less traffic consumption.
In case You have an “Unlimited Rate”, You will be able to connect more user to the internet, OR You might choose another tariff with a slower speed and lower costs, without sacrificing reponse times.
In case of a narrowband connection (e.g. dialup modem) You will enjoy faster response times. And because You will get Your work done faster You will also save on connection-time and costs.
The home-user with a modem connection will benefit from faster response-times when surfing, an office environment with several PCs connected to a LAN and sharing one fast internet connection will benefit from reduced costs, the internet cafe with a few PCs can connect more PCs to the Internet without higher costs for the ISP and without higher response times.
Practical examples of cost benefits:
In a big city of Russia, one of the ISPs charges for the basic
ADSL-service (8Mbit downstream, 1Mbit upstream), daytime, during
8:00-20:00, about 52$ for the first GB of traffic. With highest
reduction of graphics quality, savings of about 60% of traffic are
achieved using T-Booster. So the monthly bill from the ISP is reduced
significantly.
Another ISP in the same city offers ADSL, 128kBit, flat-rate for about 95$/month. Using T-Booster with highest reduction of graphics quality, it is possible to have a cheaper tariff from the same ISP, ADSL, 64kBit, flat-rate for about 54$/month, with similar response times.
For which Type of Traffic T-Booster can be used ?
HTTP, E-mail, FTP and other TCP/IP data traffic can be compressed with T-Booster.
In addition to HTTP content compression T-Booster also contracts HTTP negotiation process by compressing http headers. Same advantage is valid for POP3, SMTP and IMAP protocols.
How does T-Booster work?
For example, when the web-browser requests a web page, this request is compressed by the T-Booster Client or on the T-Booster Proxy-Server, and then forwarded to one of the T-Booster Servers.
There the request for the page is uncompressed and sent to the target host. Its response, the requested web-page, is compressed on the T-Booster Server and forwarded to the T-Booster Client or T-Booster Proxy-Server. There the web-page is uncompressed and delivered to the web-browser.
So, reducing the size of resources that are transferred between the T-Booster Server and the T-Booster Client or Proxy-Server makes more efficient use of the user's bandwidth.
See the effect of T-Booster at work here.
How is T-Booster implemented ?
T-Booster uses lossless compression provided by JZlib library which is re-implementation of zlib in pure java.
On T-Booster Servers Squid caching proxy is running.
These two major components are open source projects and are secure and reliable.
T-Booster contains optional graphics reduction ("lossy" graphics compression), which significantly reduces the amount of traffic. Have a look at the Home page to see these effects.
Unlike other Internet accelerators T-Booster Client does not use caching technology. Reserving content caching to browsers makes T-Booster a more secure service.
However, T-Booster Proxy Server requires Squid Caching Proxy, which might also be used for content filtering or DNS-caching.
There are a number of special client solutions of T-Booster. All solutions are 100% Java code therefore can be used on any platform where Java Runtime Environment is installed including Symbian's Personal Java.
Please go to the Downloads page and choose the client package which mostly suits your platform and just give it a try!
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