Want to "surf the Web up to 36 times faster"? Course you do, but short of signing up for a T1 connection and buying a 400MHz Pentium, it's not looking likely, is it? But that's exactly what Surf Express promises to do. It has two ways of speeding up your Web browsing. First, it
pre-fetches pages when your modem would otherwise be idle, so when you click on a link on your current page, the next page has already been downloaded. The speed benefit of this depends on your browsing habits and a lot of luck, but sometimes it can make a noticeable improvement.
The second, most appreciable speed benefit comes from Surf's proxy - essentially a high-speed intermediary between your Web browser and the Net.