Virgin GPRS online|offline?

CellBel said:
Buttons on websites, .eg to links, are images. So if you turn off pictures all you see is a red cross. :confused:
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The Links are still clickable, yes? So click on them! If the webmaster was clever he would have put alternative text with the Picture to show in the place of the image, as a placeholder. I surf +-90% of the sites without any pictures enabled, and I get by quite well. There is just those small percentage of sites that was not designed to be surfed without pictures. I use Adblock plus to filter out any unwanted ads and this also allows me to enable certain ads, like the ads here on myadsl that I Want to see.

TRY THIS ON YOUR OWN RISK:
In FF type about:config as the URL and press enter. Look for and set "network.http.pipelining" to "true", "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" and "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to a slightly higher value than the default 4. For my GPRS I decided on 5. Don't mess with the rest! Hopefully this works for you.

Happy surfing!
 
ld13 said:
The Links are still clickable, yes? So click on them! If the webmaster was clever he would have put alternative text with the Picture to show in the place of the image, as a placeholder. I surf +-90% of the sites without any pictures enabled, and I get by quite well. There is just those small percentage of sites that was not designed to be surfed without pictures. I use Adblock plus to filter out any unwanted ads and this also allows me to enable certain ads, like the ads here on myadsl that I Want to see.

TRY THIS ON YOUR OWN RISK:
In FF type about:config as the URL and press enter. Look for and set "network.http.pipelining" to "true", "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" and "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to a slightly higher value than the default 4. For my GPRS I decided on 5. Don't mess with the rest! Hopefully this works for you.

Happy surfing!
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Virgin is too flaky to make any real difference:rolleyes:
 
ld13 said:
The Links are still clickable, yes? So click on them! If the webmaster was clever he would have put alternative text with the Picture to show in the place of the image, as a placeholder. I surf +-90% of the sites without any pictures enabled, and I get by quite well. There is just those small percentage of sites that was not designed to be surfed without pictures. I use Adblock plus to filter out any unwanted ads and this also allows me to enable certain ads, like the ads here on myadsl that I Want to see.

TRY THIS ON YOUR OWN RISK:
In FF type about:config as the URL and press enter. Look for and set "network.http.pipelining" to "true", "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" and "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to a slightly higher value than the default 4. For my GPRS I decided on 5. Don't mess with the rest! Hopefully this works for you.

Happy surfing!
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Hi

Not on Virgin Mobile but just wanted to say thanks for the FF hack. Browsing is flying for me now. On a 1mb Sentech connection and changed the maxrequests to 8...
 
sky.akash said:
ld13 said:
The Links are still clickable, yes? So click on them! If the webmaster was clever he would have put alternative text with the Picture to show in the place of the image, as a placeholder. I surf +-90% of the sites without any pictures enabled, and I get by quite well. There is just those small percentage of sites that was not designed to be surfed without pictures. I use Adblock plus to filter out any unwanted ads and this also allows me to enable certain ads, like the ads here on myadsl that I Want to see.

TRY THIS ON YOUR OWN RISK:
In FF type about:config as the URL and press enter. Look for and set "network.http.pipelining" to "true", "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" and "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to a slightly higher value than the default 4. For my GPRS I decided on 5. Don't mess with the rest! Hopefully this works for you.

Happy surfing!
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Virgin is too flaky to make any real difference:rolleyes:
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Maybe I was wrong - I set my maxrequests to 100 and it seems to be doing much better:D Know any tweaks for Opera?:)
 
Originally Posted by ld13
TRY THIS ON YOUR OWN RISK:
In FF type about:config as the URL and press enter. Look for and set "network.http.pipelining" to "true", "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" and "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to a slightly higher value than the default 4. For my GPRS I decided on 5. Don't mess with the rest! Hopefully this works for you.
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I've tried on 5,8,20,50 and 100, but no difference on the GPRS in my area. :rolleyes:
But thx for these FF tweaks. ld13 :)
 
Why do everyone like Opera that much? I have never worked with Opera so I have never had the chance to play around with it, so no, Sorry - No tweaks that I know of. Good to know the tweak for FF works :D
 
At work I use FF portable, but on my home pc I use both Opera and FF:) The thing I love about Opera is that when you open it, all the tabs are still there from your last session:) Opera's config list doesn't show anything about pipelining:(
 
VM's GPRS was OK last night. (slow but at least i was connected)
This morning it seems fine, and pages not to slow. :)

:)===:)
 
It was most erratic this afternoon with lots of errors. I reported it, but had the usual "We don't know of any problems" attitude.
 
well have been off most of the day - but being the tech Wizard that I am - all is sorted - and I will say this, there is an old saying " do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons - for you are crunchy and will taste good with tomato ketchup "
 
It ground to a halt again last night. When I called the operator they didn't know, despite all the previous complaints. It's a deny, deny, deny policy again.
 
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