What changes does the WildBlue Optimizer make on a PC?
The WildBlue Optimizer makes five customer-reversible configuration changes. These changes are:
- It adds a "WildBlue" entry into the Programs Menu. This WildBlue entry allows you to:
- Run the WildBlue Outlook Express Configuration Tool (Windows XP and 2000 only)
- Execute the "ipconfig" program
- Execute the Optimizer again
- Check to see if you are Optimized. Are you using the WildBlue proxy?
- It places three shortcuts on your desktop:
- Shortcut to the WildBlue Customer Portal
- Shortcut to WildBlue Help
- Shortcut to web-based email in case you don't want to use client email programs like Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Netscape, etc.
- It adds three favorites to Internet Explorer in a WildBlue folder:
- WildBlue Customer Portal
- WildBlue Help
- Web-based email
- It sets the home page for Internet Explorer and Firefox to the WildBlue Customer Portal.
- For Internet Explorer it sets the following items to optimize performance.
- MaxConnectionsPerServer to 10.
- Enables http 1.1.
- Enables http 1.1 through proxies.
- Sets the Internet Explorer Local Area (LAN) Settings to "Automatically detect settings".
- Sets the Internet Explorer Local Area (LAN) Settings to "Use automatic configuration script" and sets the Address to http://wpad.wildblue.com/wpad.dat.
- For Mozilla Firefox it sets defaults in the Firefox install directory to optimize performance:
- Max connections per server to 10.
- Max persistent connections per server to 4.
- Pipelining to true.
- Proxy pipelining to true.
- Network proxy type to 2, "Automatic proxy configuration URL", and set the address to http://wpad.wildblue.com/wpad.dat.
