Bandwidth and Usage Limits
Availability
Establish when a user or server is available.
Inbound / Outbound Transfer Rates
Create a transfer rate limit restricting the transfer rate to a reasonable value.
Inbound / Outbound Transfer Quotas
Restrict how much total data your users can transfer in a given time period.
Proxy Server Support
AllegroSurf supports these proxy protocols:
- SOCKS4, SOCKS4A, and SOCKS5
- HTTP
- POP3 & SMTP
- TCP mapping
- TCP port mapping
- TCP mapping and TCP port mapping using SSL
- NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol)
- FTP
- RTSP (RealPlayer)
- DHCP
- DNS
- UDP mapping
- UDP port mapping
- Telnet
- SSL (Secure Socket Layer)
With support such as this, AllegroSurf can handle any connection that you need.
Control which users and/or group has access to each proxy server.
FTP Site Browsing
AllegroSurf now allows you to navigate an FTP site from within your browser while maintaining support for all the FTP servers supported by FTP Voyager. In addition, AllegroSurf also supports S/KEY and will use it automatically when needed.
Network Monitor
Network Monitor is no longer included in AllegroSurf, but is available for FREE download.
Site Features Filtering
The advanced filtering in AllegroSurf allows you to block ads from loading, background sounds and images, pop-up windows, and Java Scripts and Applets, as well as Visual Basic Scripts.
Select which users and/or groups have filters applied.
Customizable Ad Database
With the Internet growing as fast as it is these days, it's impossible to keep track of every ads site. With AllegroSurf, you have the power to keep up with them by manually adding new ads sites to the current database.
Content Filtering
AllegroSurf prevents access from sites that system administrators would like banned from their network. Any site with content pertaining to hate speech, sex, drugs, crime, sports, or other extreme subjects can be banned with the click of a button. In addition, administrators can specify specific sites to ban/allow as well as bypass those blocked sites with a valid username and password.
Select which users and/or groups have filters applied.
Content filtering based on titles in addition to meta descriptions. Meta description filtering improved to work better with compound words.
Prefetch Webpages
Have you ever wondered how you can speed up your Internet surfing? By using AllegroSurf, you're doing just that! While you're reading a webpage, AllegroSurf is putting your Internet connection to work prefetching every site it can find for you that is linked to your current page. When you click on a link to go to that site, the page is ready to load in AllegroSurf's cache.
Scheduler
AllegroSurf will even do your surfing for you. If you don't want to wait for pages to load at all, you can setup AllegroSurf to download the sites you like to visit while you're away. Then when you're ready, you can look through those sites just like normal...straight from your own hard-drive!
What is a Proxy Server?
A proxy server allows you to use a single connection to the Internet and share it with the rest of the computers on your network. With a proxy server like AllegroSurf, you can share any kind of connection that you might have:
- Dial-up and Cable Modems
- Single and Dual ISDN
- DSL and ADSL
- Partial and Full T1-T3
AllegroSurf supports Mac, Unix, and Linux clients so it doesn't matter what kind of computers your network consists of; they can all use the same Internet connection! In addition, AllegroSurf works on any network that supports the TCP, IP, or UDP protocol. And since it runs on the Windows 9x/NT/2000/Me/XP platforms, you can use AllegroSurf anywhere!
It's easy to see how much time and money that AllegroSurf can save you. Just think of all the savings a proxy server solution can generate. AllegroSurf eliminates the need for:
- Extra phone lines
- Additional Internet accounts
- Additional modems
- Expensive support hardware
In addition, AllegroSurf comes with a free Network Monitor program that runs in your systray to tell you the current status of your server. It can even dial your client's modem for you if your server loses its connection to the Internet.
AllegroSurf also protects your internal network through its built-in firewall capabilities. Through binding IP addresses and internal port usage, no outside computers can get into your network to cause damage. The protection offered by a proxy server is limited to the client computers.
AllegroSurf can connect through a very large list of protocols in order to ensure that it supports the maximum amount of Internet applications possible.