Product Comparison

There are two basic methods to improve Internet Connections by software.
The first way is to download webpages before you need them by looking at all the links on the page you are viewing. Studies have shown that this is a very wasteful method that increases traffic and clogs ISPs and overall does not improve browsing speed much.
The reason for this is that most pages have a lot of links and in the time you need to select a link only a few of the possible pages have been downloaded. Studies show that the average speed increase is less than 10%.
New versions of the popular browsers include a free preload feature that is more practical.

The second way is to optimize Window's way of handling Internet connections. This is why we call our software Internet Optimizer. It works by setting the hidden TCP/IP parameters inside the Windows operating system. TCP/IP is the internal communications protocol of the Internet and specifies how your computer puts data into packets that are transported and routed through the Internet. Our Performance page shows you actual measurements of speed improvements and how you can measure and improve your speed with Speedlane 2000.

You can imagine the Internet as being a system of connected tubes through which packets are transported. As your data makes its way to the destination, the packet passes through forks in the system. Here, devices called routers decide which way to send the packet according to its destination address.
Some of the routers and some of the tubes in the Internet are narrower than others and allow only smaller packets. If a too large packet arrives, it is sent back to the sender. Your computer now repackages the data into smaller packets and sends it out again.

From this simplified picture you can see that choosing a too large packet size creates a lot of extra traffic and delays. Speedlane 2000 takes care of telling Windows which packet size to use by changing the MaxMTU parameter according to the connection method (Modem, Cable, DSL...). This is only the first of eleven parameters that is optimized by Speedlane. Speedlane's manual lists the other parameters.

The following table gives you a comparison between Speedlane 2000, our earlier products Speedlane 98 and Speedwiz and other, similar products. As you can see, we have worked very hard to make Speedlane 2000 the best Internet Optimizer available on the market.

Comparison Table