[aklug] Re: saving bandwidth on metered Internet

From: adam bultman <adamb@glaven.org>
Date: Fri Jul 23 2010 - 12:37:06 AKDT

Royce Williams wrote:
> Bruce Hill wrote, on 7/22/2010 5:50 PM:
>
>> Here in the poor world we're presently on a plan with 240 mins/month and
>> 300MB data for $14.86 USD. Incoming calls are free on all plans. And we
>> can call America directly from the iPhone for about 9c USD ... not bad,
>> especially considering that with a good signal here, the quality exceeds
>> that of our land line.
>>
>
> A side note for those of you in similar circumstances: expensive or
> low-bandwidth connections. A great way to conserve *lots* of Firefox
> bandwidth is the ImgLikeOpera extension:
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1672/
>
>
There's also the lovely Adblock plus:
http://adblockplus.org/en/

And FlashBlock - doesn't load ANY flash, gives you a little button on
each flash thing to click before it loads:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433/

Flashblock is *awesome* for blocking stupid flash ads that automatically
load and start cycling. You end up with a lot of boxes waiting for you
to click them, but I *believe* you can block flash based on sites - I
haven't used it for a while. Saves you bandwidth, and saves you CPU
cycles since you won't have a ton of flash ads running, eating up your
processor.

Adam

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