Vodacom throttling image quality on 3G?

[jannievanzyl]

Jannie, jy het 48 uur voor ek die trekker vat en die Vodacom torings begin omstoot. Roep hulle op die radio of ek breek hulle!

OK, but give me that time at least.

 

[Ockie]

I think this is a great Idea....but with the option to disable it completely. Have it enabled by default..and then like a pop up that comes up when you load the first page asking "Would you like compression on or off?" and then a brief message explaining the benefits of compression? Just a idea.

 

[Keeper]

Man, this compression is seriously starting to irritate the hell out of me... it really blows.

ISPs should not filter or tamper with our Internet. ... Shift+R improves the quality of this image. Shift+A improves the quality of all images on this page.

 

[Ockie]

Man, this compression is seriously starting to irritate the hell out of me... it really blows.

ISPs should not filter or tamper with our Internet. ... Shift+R improves the quality of this image. Shift+A improves the quality of all images on this page.

What do you think of my suggestion though?

Please dont hurt me!!!!!

 

[Keeper]

off by default.
This is 2012, not 1997 on 56k modems.

seriously, this is what images from imgur/reddit look like on Vodacom:

Yes I know I can "reload all images" but then it wastes my bandwidth as I'm loading everything twice?
It's also wasting my time needing to do this on every picture I open on reddit (it doesn't even work half the time), and it stuffs with my posts on mybb.

 

[MeercatMilker]

@ocleroux, I agree with Keeper. It's pretty pathetic of them to mess with our internet data and not a great idea at all. I'm getting pretty fed up with this. I'm waiting one or two more days before switching service providers and lucky for us there is number porting.

 

[jannievanzyl]

@ocleroux, I agree with Keeper. It's pretty pathetic of them to mess with our internet data and not a great idea at all. I'm getting pretty fed up with this. I'm waiting one or two more days before switching service providers and lucky for us there is number porting.

Calm down to a panic, won't you.

And test after midnight and let me know.

 

[Ockie]

@ocleroux, I agree with Keeper. It's pretty pathetic of them to mess with our internet data and not a great idea at all. I'm getting pretty fed up with this. I'm waiting one or two more days before switching service providers and lucky for us there is number porting.

I just thought it would be a good idea...would surely make your bundle last a lot longer too. Reason why I said to have it on by default and first time you load a web page in a session it asks you if you want it on or off is cause a lot of people wont know about it or how it works.

Anyways...was just a thought.

 

[fM1DRKbzkFqwA]

Calm down to a panic, won't you.

And test after midnight and let me know.

Midnight 21 - 22 June? Still happening 22 june 6 am.

 

[jannievanzyl]

Midnight 21 - 22 June? Still happening 22 june 6 am.

Hmmm.....let me check.

 

[jannievanzyl]

Hmmm.....let me check.

Sounds like it should be off.

Where are you based and on what device are you seeing this?

And you did do a F5?

 

[biometrics]

Ctrl F5?

 

[jannievanzyl]

Ctrl F5?

Can never remember the diff between F5, Ctrl-F5, Shift-F5, etc.

 

[biometrics]

Ctrl F5 forces a complete reload incl javascript, css etc.

 

[Necuno]

Can never remember the diff between F5, Ctrl-F5, Shift-F5, etc.

:erm:

 

[MeercatMilker]

Jannie, I'm also still seeing compressed images.

 

[jannievanzyl]

Jannie, I'm also still seeing compressed images.

OK, I need more info please?

Where are you: Central Guateng area?

What platform?

Is what you're now seeing the same, better or worse than before?

 

[MeercatMilker]

OK, I need more info please?

Where are you: Central Guateng area?

What platform?

Is what you're now seeing the same, better or worse than before?

I'm situated in North West.
I'm using Mac OS X 10.7.4 (Also seeing this in Windows, iOS and on different PC's connected to the same network.)
I'm using a Routerboard 411UAHR + Sierra Wireless MC8792V (Latest RouterOS v5.17)
Images are still as bad as they were initially. The javascript is still injected into all http pages. Only https are fine. I did "CMD + R" on the Macs and "Ctrl + F5" on the Windows PC's, but it made no difference.

 

[ginggs]

I'm using a Routerboard 411UAHR + Sierra Wireless MC8792V (Latest RouterOS v5.17)

Have you disconnected and reconnected, i.e. started a new session, since midnight?

 

[MrGray]

I am not sure that it's even technically legal for an ISP to be intercepting and modifying data in this fashion. This is outrageous. I hope they stop it soon.