How Does TrafficCompressor Work?
On-the-fly Traffic Compression.
TrafficCompressor compresses data received and sent
over the Internet. When you open a web page or receive an e-mail with TrafficCompressor
the data is not transferred directly from the web or e-mail server to your computer.
The data is transferred through one of the TrafficCompressor servers located
on high-speed Internet backbones in several countries.
The TrafficCompressor server compresses
the data and sends it in compressed form to your computer via your dial-up, GPRS,
or other connection. That results in your Internet traffic decrease.
This has a side effect - the data is transferred faster.
The TrafficCompressor program running locally on your computer
receives the compressed data, decompresses, and delivers it to your web browser,
e-mail client, or other local software.
Unsupported traffic (ZIP, MP3, EXE files, FTP, HTTPS, SMTP traffic
and so on)
is not transferred through the TrafficCompressor servers and not compressed.
Let's examine in details how it works when you are opening, for example,
http://www.TCompressor.com page
in your web browser.
- You are typing www.tcompressor.com address in the address bar of
your web browser.
- TrafficCompressor is sending the web page request to the
TrafficCompressor server.
- TrafficCompressor server is downloading the page from
www.tcompressor.com web server.
- TrafficCompressor server is compressing the page and sending it to
your computer.
- TrafficCompressor program is receiving the page, decompressing,
and delivering it to the web browser.
The process is similar when you receive/download some other kinds of
data from the Internet or when you send/upload something.
The traffic compression process is represented in the following diagram.
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Uncompressed traffic.
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Compressed traffic over your GPRS, ADSL or other connection.
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Unsupported traffic (ZIP, MP3, EXE files, FTP, HTTPS, SMTP traffic
and so on) is transferred directly to or from
an Internet server without TrafficCompressor.
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