High-speed dial-up works faster than standard dial-up through several techniques: 1) Acceleration servers allow machines to establish connections faster by remembering responses to handshake questions. 2) File compression reduces file sizes for faster transfers while maintaining integrity. 3) Filtering blocks ads and pop-ups from slowing transfers, while caching saves unchanged web pages to avoid re-downloading them. In summary, these techniques work to speed up different parts of the connection and data transfer processes to provide a faster experience than standard dial-up.