Guest Space Coyote Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 If you're anything like me even though you have a reasonable download allowance per month (90gb) you still manage to use it all up, or at least the 'on peak' allowance leaving you at 15kb/s or lower for the remainder of the month. Unfortunately a lot of the WATMM greatness we all know and love involves hefty flash avatars and moviefied gifs and this can leave you staring at a whole lot of frames with no text and a bunch of still loading images with 1cm of preview at the top. Enter ImgLikeOpera. This puppy will only load images that are already cached in your browser from previous visits allowing for the text and body of posts to appear much quicker while leaving place holders for the images and flash so when want to load them individually, you can. The few images you select to load may also load quicker than expected without the rest of the bulk of the site competing for attention at the same time. imglikeopera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chax Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 wow, is the internet really thaqt bad in australia? i'm constantly paying fees for going over bandwidth for bell, but i don't think they are actually limiting me in terms of available speed. are there any other options you can go with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Space Coyote Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 Yeah you can pay to download beyond the limit but those rates are notoriously bad compaired to the $1/gb ratio of the initial plan limits. I'm on aDSL and we use it on a second dedicated phone line (still around from the dial up days). Other options in Australia are naked aDSL, which has a hefty one time installation fee I believe but saves you on phone line rental each month, or cable internet. Naked aDSL plans tend to cost more for less downloads per month though. Cable internet here is usually slower than aDSL and has smaller download/upload allowances. I think the best value options are the middle of the range download limit DSL packs or cable internet if you're not a heavy user and have it bundled with your mobile, landline, cable tv, gas and/or electric (the options for which you can bundle together vary depending on where you live in Australia) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chax Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 wow, that's crazy. have you thought about moving away from Australia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremymacgregor87 Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 I used to be on a 20GB download plan that charged $1/1MB over the 20GB - BRUTAL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaarg Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 Thumbs up for Slovenia. We're limitless! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ezkerraldean Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 Thumbs up for Slovenia. We're limitless! pobeda! pretty sure i don't have any limits either. although i don't actually download that much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaarg Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 pobeda as in "zmaga"? lol yeah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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