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>>> I need to optimize web browsing for a slow cell phone data |
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>>> connection. |
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>>> I'd like to browse faster and use less data ($). I've installed |
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>>> ImgLikeOpera for Firefox which is great at selectively blocking |
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>>> images, and I'm wondering if there's anything else I can do? |
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>>> - Grant |
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>> Can anyone offer advice for IMAP? I'm using Thunderbird and it's slow |
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>> and data-heavy. |
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> I believe that the nature of IMAP is to be fairly network intensive. |
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> When I use my laptop for mail, it usually takes some time to sync |
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> messages that have appeared in the last couple of days since I last |
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> did so (on my laptop). Typically contents of the inbox appear within a |
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> minute or two, but I would guess that clicking on any of my mailing |
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> list folders may cause a delay of several minutes. |
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> It's not the raw number of minutes that's the problem, but how the |
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> mail client just tends to feel sluggish unless you leave it alone for |
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> a few minutes to sync up with the IMAP server. One _knows_ there are |
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> new messages there, one knows that there should be messages in the |
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> gentoo-users folder newer than 4 days old, but they don't appear when |
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> you click on it. |
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> In my case I'm always on broadband when I use my laptop away from |
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> home, my mailserver is at my house, and the bandwidth bottleneck is |
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> the upstream of my home ADSL line at 288k. I would dread to think what |
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> it would be like at dial-up speeds (i.e. slow cell phone data |
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> connection), although to be fair my mobile does ok syncing inboxes |
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> only. The solution with that, too, is to leave the phone alone, |
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> downloading for some minutes, and then come back to it when it's |
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> finished. |
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> I use Mail.app on a Mac as my mail client, but I can't imagine |
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> Thunderbird to be much worse. |
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> Stroller. |
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OK, no compression options or anything? |
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By the way, if anyone finds themself in Tanzania and in need of a |
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prepaid cell data line, I found the ultimate: |
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http://www.vodacom.co.tz/docs/docredir.asp?docid=3530 |
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Good speed too. Tigo is almost as cheap but incredibly slow. |
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Zain/Celtel is as fast, but at nearly 5 times the price of the 250MB |
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Vodacom bundle. The only option I didn't try was Zanzibar Telecom. |
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- Grant |
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