Comments on: Opera 10 Turbo Gives Slow Connections a Kick in the Pants

By: Beta Watch: Opera 10 Beta 1 Turbo

Beta Watch: Opera 10 Beta 1 Turbo — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:27:20 +0000

[...] won’t revisit the Turbo feature in great detail, since how it works was outlined thoroughly in the previous article, but a new configuration option enables an Opera Turbo setting to activate [...]

By: Beta Watch: Opera 10 Beta 1 Turbo

Beta Watch: Opera 10 Beta 1 Turbo — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:04:10 +0000

[...] in March, I reviewed the Opera Turbo Labs preview version of the Opera 10 alpha browser incorporating server-side [...]

By: Knut H.

Knut H. — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:50:53 +0000

Beware: The US is at least 10 years behind Europe in telecoms, so you can expect dial-up sessions to take place until around 2015… By then they will patent “square bits” – where only two is required to make a byte…
The main problem with Opera is that its European, so they need Firefox and Safari just in case. That the mark-up language we use on the net originates from Europe just prove their need to be concerned. I sent HTML emails in 1985, but then it was strickly “proprietary” as no US company had provided editors and browsers.

By: Ahmed Faraz

Ahmed Faraz — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:12:19 +0000

If dial-up is your only option then some money and some search in google can allow you to use multiple dial-up connections at once … you’ll have to pay for the extra line plus the ISP … however you can get good speed … your ISP will evolve eventually … but I think if they can’t provide dial-up at its fullest … they must have a problem with their lines … maybe they have satellite at the back end … WiMAX and Mesh Networking were developed to provide last mile coverage … maybe your town gets lucky!

By: Miray

Miray — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:43:40 +0000

“Another option is to use the no-images plugin for Firefox.”

You need an extension for that in Firefox?! For real?

Opera does that out of the box. There’s a button for it in the lower right corner of the user interface.

Still won’t be as fast as Opera Turbo, though, I reckon.

By: Jack H

Jack H — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:28:43 +0000

Wow, really very impressive. Looking forward to using this for 3G tethering, should improve the browsing experience massively.

Another option is to use the no-images plugin for Firefox. Of course, this is only really any good if you tend to browse text based websites.

By: AppBeacon

AppBeacon — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:06:34 +0000

I live on a dirt road 25 miles from a moderate sized town. Fortunately, we’ve got several Wireless ISPs out here. Mine is SOLBroadband (http://solbroadband.com/) (very unfortunate name). They are great. I get about 8MB down & 2.5 up. This is better than many people in that moderate sized town. Woohoo!

Best of luck to you in getting a good connection in the future.

By: Charles W. Moore

Charles W. Moore — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:47:34 +0000

Hi Halder Luis;

I’ve thought of going satellite too, which is the only broadband alternative where I live (isolated rural area in Canada) so far. However, I don’t know what they charge for satelite Internet or what sorts of plans are available in Europe, but it’s too expensive for my budget here.

When I first costed out satellite broadband service from various ISP several years ago, the cheapest deal I could find then worked out to a bottom line of more than $3,000 over a two year contract (that figure included the purchase of a dish and modem plus installation, setup and government licensing fees, locked in with a punishing penalty for early cancellation. Plus I would still need dialup service for weather-related satellite outages, as I neeed reliable Internet access for my work and I’m told by friends who have satellite service that it is interrupted by snow and ice storms. That’s more than I can afford or justify.

Revisiting the issue more recently, I found that one ISP, Xplornet, now offers entry level (512 Kbps download/128 Kbps upload) satellite service for Can$59.95 per month plus Can$249.00 installation (mileage to outlying areas such as where I live extra), plus the cost of the dish and modem, but without a locked-in contract if you pay a premium up-front “system access” fee of Can$299 instead of Can$99 with a two-year contract. Still pretty steep, especially for those relatively poky (for broadband) throughput rates, which you can double or triple for monthly rates of Can$99 and Can$149 respectively. This deal is somewhat more tempting than what was being offered a couple of years ago, but still way too expensive for me to stomach when folks nine miles up or down the road can get DSL for Can$35 a month.

We have been promised that ther will be wireless broadband service here by the end of this year that will be cost-comprtitive with rates where DSL or cable are available. I hope it happens, but in the meantime, Opera Turbo has just made living with dial-up a lot more tolerable.

Charles

By: Helder Luis

Helder Luis — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:51:12 +0000

Can you see the sky? Why not a satellite based solution for your slow internet…?
I live in Europe and now 3G GSM internet access is pretty common but some years ago i though of going satellite… now even fiber DSL is beginning to catch up here…