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Set image quality to low and they'll still look perfectly fine snd it'll speed things up.
I'm in New Orleans and I've been uploading pics all day, at 64kbps, and it's been working flawlessly. Surprisingly fast. I don't know how they do it. Verified my bandwidth and it's 61kbps, give or take.
Browsing with Chrome is an exercise in frustration but using Opera Mini and FB Lite has been wonderful.
With Opera Mini be sure to set image quality to low, choose Extreme Savings, and block ads.
I've found that Puffin and Opera Mini seem to beat each other in different situations, but I haven't cracked the code of who excels the most in which situations. That's why I keep them both installed. If one starts acting slow then I switch to the other.
Does Puffin proxy the connection the same way that Opera Mini does, where the website owner cannot see your actual IP Address?
Indeed - that was the first thing I did in Opera Mini and set Puffin to optimize. But I haven't had a chance to use them in a throttled bandwidth situation yet. This is on behalf of a family member who has a low allotment data plan and will be hitting 2g.
I noticed Puffin and Dolphin even play a flash webcam video that shows still images in Opera Mini and Chrome. Of course, that uses more data.
Dolphin browser was my only browser for several years. Then it got really buggy and force closed all the time. I eventually gave up on it and hadn't tried any other versions in recent years.
Why were you using Dolphin for years? You had a low bandwidth connection?
I used Dolphin because it had add ons that were useful to me, including the ability to view the desktop site vs the mobile site. Every browser can do that, now, but at the time only Dolphin had that capability.
I installed Dolphin a while back hoping it would work with a flash based web interface for some monitoring equipment in our data center at work, not because of bandwidth. Unfortunately, it didn't work for what I hoping it would. The flash webcam video was just something I noticed while playing around with the different browsers last night.
Here's a useful data point:
I usually leave my phones in CDMA-only mode (without LTE) because we do a lot of cross country driving and it saves battery in weaker signal areas. I turn on LTE if a situation warrants it.
I was starting to have a lot of problems with Tello's throttled data. Pages wouldn't load completely and Puffin browser would say "unreliable network connection."
I was thinking about porting to FreedomPop and leaving Tello behind, but it turned out that changing my data setting back to CDMA/LTE solved the problem. I've experimented with this in Alabama and Louisiana and the 3g connection causes me to frequently get "unstable connection" errors and LTE connections seem to work seamlessly with no such errors.
YMMV, but that's what I'm seeing.
Interesting.
Did that setting have any impact on your unthrottled LTE speed issue?
I wouldn't think so, because I didn't change it to CDMA-only until I was already on throttled data. I'll experiment with it next month, though. Or I may turn PAYG data on in the dashboard and experiment before then.
On my main line that has a paygo balance, I used the 50% off coupon and registered for a plan with only 200 MB data so that I can do some testing of the 2g data on my own phone. I always keep my phone set for LTE, so I shouldn't run into the issue you described earlier.
How much did the first month cost you after the 50% discount?
Got a chance to see the browsing speed on Tello's throttle. Was worse than the mintSIM throttle. My wife said it was better outside of the house.
Anyway, I don't think I could use throttled data. It surprised me how it affects browsing. I can see it affecting apps as well.
But of course everybody is different. My wife said the faster speed she got on the throttle was ok for her. She also doesn't mind the little pause from the freedompop global sim. I'm more impatient and I think the kids take after me because one of them complained about the mintSIM throttle as well.
$3.77 with tax
Tello 2g, Chrome vs Puffin:
Wow!
Is that because of compression?
Chrome has a "data saver" mode as well.
The difference we're seeing in this case is a result of Puffin rendering the page in the "cloud" while only the result of the test is shown in the client's browser. The Puffin test is the result of the bandwidth test as run on the Puffin server. Chrome is testing bandwidth to the client, which of course, is far less.
Yes, it's due to compression.
Chrome's data saver mode is very mild and doesn't make much of a difference. I save about 4℅ vs 99℅ with Puffin.