[Gllug] experiences with mobile broadband devices?

[Peter Corlett]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 06:12:16PM +0200, salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
> On Fri, June 26, 2009 09:30, Caroline Ford wrote:
>> Not as good as real broadband. Throughput worse, blocked ports,
>> compulsory image degrading.
> Compulsory image degrading ? How does that work then ?

The mobile networks use a transparent proxy that resamples images and
compresses HTML. The results are variable, but it suffices for the usual
case of quickly checking something on the web via a mobile handset. This
same infrastructure is also used to censor things that the networks don't
like.

Anybody with half a clue can bypass it if it bothers them, typically by
using a VPN or ssh tunnel.

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