Tech Tips for Non-Tech People!
Original Air Date: Dec 11, 2018
Faster Browsing on the Road
Any of you that spend a lot of time on the road are used to less than desirable Internet speeds from the available wifi options.
It doesn’t matter whether you are on a flight, in a hotel lobby or meeting at a coffee shop, everyone on the connection is sharing a slow data pipe.
Airplane wifi can be especially challenging when you try to access all of the multimedia content that’s so common on most to today’s websites.
There is an option to optimize whichever browser you’re using for really slow connections, but then requires you to remember to put all the settings back to normal when you are back on a high-speed pipe.
To bypass that hassle, I suggest road warriors think about using the less known Opera browser when you are on the go.
The Opera browser provides a special mode they call ‘Turbo’ that optimizes all your content on the Opera servers before sending it to your device to reduce download times.
In addition, by automatically blocking Flash content until you click on the container further reduces the load of unnecessary multimedia content.
When you’re on an extremely slow connection, you can even set Opera to not load images at all, which increases the speed of written content.
More suggestions are posted at:
https://www.datadoctors.com/help/columns/22011
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