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How Dial-up Acceleration Servers Work:
An Illustration.

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Legend for illustration below:

Blue = compression-acceleration servers (aka "proxy servers")
Green = web page content, compressed and uncompressed
Red = your current ISP, who now received compressed content via the proxy servers.



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