Finding reliable Internet access while overseas has been rather hellish. I'm currently on a prepaid mobile broadband thing for 3 euros a day, but there's a daily bandwidth cap of 200MB. I didn't learn about this cap until yesterday when I turned my netbook into a mobile hotspot so the people I'm traveling with could share the connection.
So...do you people have any tips for reducing bandwidth consumption? I'm pretty much exclusively using a web browser. I've written a small script to monitor usage and these are the precautionary steps I've taken so far:
- Temporarily switched from Chrome to Firefox because I've heard Chrome's adblock just hides ads as opposed to Firefox's adblock not even downloading them.
- Disabled images.
- Enabled NoScript.
- No youtube/grooveshark/netflix/system updates.
- Disconnecting when not in use.
Did I miss anything obvious? I'm running Ubuntu in case it matters.
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As well as using adblock, you can get one of those edited HOSTS files that completely blocks ads from even showing up as it simply re-directs traffic from those sites to home.
Other than that, I durno.
And obligatory "What the fuck do you mean you people"
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http://analyze.websiteoptimization.com
I just ran this site on bots4
- setting your images to PNG.
- Use less objects (currently 24 on the main page)
- 6 scripts - combine them to run faster
- the file sizes are huge, compress them more.
That's the basics.
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Um, I'm pretty sure he's not running bots from his notebook:
Disconnecting when not in use.
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I don't think it would be wise to invest in stars if Wiggin was running this fucking thing of a notebook while travelling.
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Err yeah, just to be clear, I'm talking about reducing bandwidth usage of a personal connection, not for the game server. :)
Erica, isn't that effectively what Firefox's adblock does though? Maintains the ad domain blacklist and completely prevents requests from going to them? I could monkey around with my hosts file if necessary, but I've already manually edited it so I'd prefer not to if possible.
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big lol @ the people who thought Ender's running the game on his laptop
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If a site that you regularly use has a mobile version that doesn't sacrifice too much functionality, I'd stick with that version for the time being. But you probably already thought of that.
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So...do you people have any tips for reducing bandwidth consumption? Stop downloading porn
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there is probably a way to make it so the restricting component thinks you are not using as much as you really are:) but that is most likely going to get into illegal territory...
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there is probably a way to make it so the restricting component thinks you are not using as much as you really are:)
It's not like filling in a tax form where you can lie about numbers..
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