Speed MASTER 1.0 is a Web Accelerator product from ctnetsoftware.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, Speed Master is an internet optimization tool. It simply improves your internet connection speed by tuning Windows network configurations and browser settings. Speed Master will also prevent you from undesirable disconnections.

Speed Master is award-winning internet speed booster that improves your internet connection speed and prevents you from being disconnected. Default Windows settings are not always optimized to give maximum performance. There are two optimization methods available. First optimization method is automatic optimization. You can use this optimization method to use predefined settings tested on various systems. Custom optimization can be used by advanced users. With custom optimization you can configure your internet connection settings manually. Stay Connected utility, which is included in Speed Master, prevents you from disconnections due to inactivity.

* Automatic Optimization
Automatic Optimization option enables you to optimize your internet connection settings with predefined configurations. These predefined configurations are tested on numerous systems. To get the best performance, please select your connection type correctly.
Automatic Optimization option enables you to optimize your internet connection settings with predefined configurations. These predefined configurations are tested on numerous systems. To get the best performance, please select your connection type correctly. You can improve your internet connection speed for the following connection types:
1. Dial-up Modem
2. Lan, Cable Modem, xDSL, ISDN, T1, or faster
3. Cable/DSL running PPPoE or PPTP
4. Satellite

* Custom Optimization
Custom Optimization is mostly suitable for advanced users. You can optimize important connection settings like MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit), RWIN (TCP Receive Window Size) manually by using Custom Optimization.

* Stay Connected
Stay Connected prevents you from disconnections. Some ISPs drop your connection due to inactivity. Stay Connected tool keeps your connection active by sending small TCP/IP packets to a specified URL.

Custom Optimization is mostly suitable for advanced users. You can optimize important connection settings like MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit), RWIN (TCP Receive Window Size) manually by using Custom Optimization. Some of the important parameters you can optimize with Speed Master are:

MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit)
MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) is simply maximum size (in bytes) of a packet that can be transferred over network. When your computer makes a connection with your ISP or another computer, they must agree on the MTU to transfer data.

MSS (Maximum Segment Size)
MSS (Maximum Segment Size) is the largest amount of data that is put in a packet. This value is usually 40 less than MTU.

RcvWindow (TCP Receive Window Size)
RcvWindow (TCP Receive Window Size) represents the size of the data (in bytes) a sender may transmit without receiving an acknowledgment. Setting this value too small will cause a slower throughput. For better results RWIN should be an even multiple of the TCP MSS.

Max DupAcks
Fast Retransmission and Fast Recovery of TCP connections are encountering IP packet loss in the network. These mechanisms allow a TCP sender to quickly infer a single packet loss and resend the packet after receiving duplicate acknowledgments for a previously sent and acknowledged TCP/IP packet. This mechanism is useful when the network is intermittently congested and intervening routers or switches are dropping packets.

TTL (Time To Live)
A field in the IP header which indicates how long this packet should be allowed to survive before being discarded. It is primarily used as a hop count. If the IP packet does not reach to destination after passing specified number of hops, it is dropped. Due to growth of the internet, the recommended value for TTL is 128.

Session Keep Alive
Specifies how often to send session keepalive packets on active sessions. The minimum is 60 seconds. The default is 3600 seconds.

PMTU Discovery
Enabling this feature provides TCP to discover the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) over the entire path to the remote host. By discovering the maximum possible transmission unit along the path and restricting TCP messages to this size, fragmentation is eliminated until the message reaches the destination. PMTU Discovery is enabled in Windows by default. The only drawback of enabling this parameter is the delay in discovering the MTU size.

BlackHole Detection
This setting enables "black hole" routers to be detected. "Black hole" routers do not send back ICMP "Datagram Too Big" messages during PMTU Auto Discovery process. In most cases, it is recommended to disable this feature in order to get a better performance.

Stay connected is a software which prevent you from disconnections. Some ISP's drop your connection due to inactivity. Stay connected sends a small TCP/IP packet to given URL to keep your connection active. While Stay Connected is running you will see see an animated notification icon on system tray if you have connection. You can specify ping interval and the URL to ping. If you check "Run when Windows starts" option, Stay Connected tool will start automatically, when you start a Windows session.
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