How Proxyconn calculates speed & how it will be useful?

[brayan]

Proxyconn even goes as far as to show your "Effective Speed." This is a calculation of how fast Proxyconn thinks your connection is performing. In my experience, Proxyconn estimated my 44 Kbps connection was performing like a 181 Kbps connection.

[bob]

Banner ad removal.
Pop-up removal.
Using a proxy connection via a local host to provide improved caching of the websites you visit, making return visits faster.
Dedicated servers: The proxy connection reroutes HTTP requests to one of Proxyconn's six domestic US servers that will deliver HTTP data to you faster than your ISP.
Data compression: Data between your machine and their servers to increase the amount of data that reaches your PC.

[Charles]

Proxyconn claims to remove banners and kill pop-up. That's easy to notice and it works. However, there are hundreds of freeware alternatives that work just as well. So while that's nice, it's not worth the money.

[robert]

The locally hosted proxy is true. HTTP requests are routed to IP address 127.0.0.1, which is your own PC. What we're supposed to believe happens after this is hard for an average user to prove or disprove. In this case, the local proxy server caches more WebPages than Internet Explorer would normally. If the page isn't cached, the proxy server requests it from Proxyconn's own servers. HTTP data is compressed and returned to the local proxy server that decompressed that data and serves that to your Web browser.