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As of June 2005, these applications generally serve to improve [[dial-up]] and other low speed connections. Many users can achieve a 2 to 3 times speed increase in average browsing experience, while some report a 5 to 10 times speed increases for specific web pages.
[[Google]]'s [[Google Web Accelerator|Web Accelerator]] has attempted to improve [[broadband]] access to the sites. Moreover, they are designed for web browsing and, sometimes, for e-mailing and can not improve speeds of [[Streaming media|streaming]], gaming, P2P downloads or many other Internet applications. Many ISPs offer web accelerators as a part of their dial up service.
Some web accelerators have been very controversial pieces of software. Critics claim that prefetching HTML page links slows the internet backbone. Others suggest that the accelerators overload web servers with prefetching and cache freshening behaviors.
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