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saspro

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Mobile broadband compression?

I've been using my VM 3G dongle on my macbook whilst on holiday and images on the web appear to be showing at a reduced quality.
Are these being compressed by the service provider or is it something in Firefox?

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Thu Sep 10, 2009 3:43 pm

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Re: Mobile broadband compression?

Probably the service provider.

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Thu Sep 10, 2009 4:37 pm

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Re: Mobile broadband compression?

Cant say I've noticed it on my vodafone one.

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Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:03 pm

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Re: Mobile broadband compression?

On my T-mobile dongle, the images used to be compressed. Fantastic when loading an image-heavy page and you didn't need to look at the images. There was a key-combo which reloaded the pics with the uncompressed version. Compressing the images is a way of preserving bandwidth and makes sure you don't go over your 2GB limit or whatever too quickly.

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