Image compression?

[sparkysays]

Is anyone experiencing a huge amount of image compression while looking at pictures? I am a photographer based in London and i find that when i'm on the net with the Vodafone 3G Mobile Connect card, all image formats are hugely low res.

[David_NHS]

Same problem here. I only twigged when I read a post elsewhere about AOL doing this. I'd switched to Firefox thinking it was a browser thing - but the pics there have gone lossy. Anway, AOL have the option to turn this default feature off. Don't know about Vodafone... I suspect they want to keep their bandwidth down. I'm looking for an answer from Vodafone anyway. As a designer / developer I need good quality images on the move. But I'm a bit of a quandery when I consider my site's users that may also be getting Vodafone cards.. I'd rather they saw the original images - but shouldn't content not come first?!

[MrFrustrated]

I just spent a frustrating few hours looking at a friends laptop because of the same problem. I didn't even know about the image compression but found out about it on Vodafones New Zealand website. Anyway, do not despair, forcing the page to refresh will download the images in full quality. In Internet Explorer you do this with CTRL-F5. Im sure other browsers have similar key combinations to perform the same thing.

A note about that in the user manual might have been nice, I thought it was down to video drivers and wasted hours! Oh well, it's solved now.

[netatom]

Your Pain if felt. The source of your problem is a component by Bytemobile shipped as part of the driver installation CD. Bytemobile is NOT compatible with Nortons Internet Security as well (16 Hours of reverse engineering). I have complained with my service provider and they have shutdown said compression on there network.

[chaos77]

i had the same prob last year on o2, using gprs.

[vodafone_user]

I called Vodafone about this -

5 separate members of their staff have now told me that they don't apply compression at all (including two who said they had checked with "someone technical") and that it must be my PC settings - not true (although not the fault of the people who clearly have been given no training).

Eventually, I found a posting on another website with a workaround - just press CTRL and refresh and the pics are rendered full size - great - but why couldn't Vodafone have told me that?

[mobiko]

hi all,

I too encounter the same problem.

Yes, the ctrl-F5 or ctrl-shift <refresh> work for both IE and mozilla/firebird. But i realise i have to do it everytime i view any website, else all images would appear in low-res. Is there any setting that can automatically turn off "low-res images when browsing"?

Thanks.

[swimfish]

seems like there are still no solution to fix it.
i have installed bytemobile optimizer and it works,
only thing is now i cant log in to my yahoo im and
retrieve pop3 email from outlook... hmm.. :eek:

[VodaGuy]

Hi

Heres a trick which is a bit tedious but works:

Uninstall vodafone software,
Install bytemobile software.
Install vodafone software.
Uninstall bytmobile.

Connect and try.

[swimfish]

vodafone software? i assume u meant for mobile phones?
well thing is, im using a laptop :) im still figuring a way
to access both my yahoo IM and outlook express for pop3.
im sure there are some settings im missing out...

[VodaGuy]

I thought this was for 3g card? U getting this problem when connecting your phone?

[swimfish]

yes 3g card for laptop.
the vodafone software u mentioned is for laptop?
where can i get this software? ;)

[VodaGuy]

http://www.business.vodafone.com/mobileofficeroot/enuk/support/20_datacards/30_software/10_pc/10_latestdash/p_latest.jsp

[swimfish]

ok thanks.
but i dont think i am able to use vodafone.
my 3g datacard came with MobiLink Wireless Connection Manager.
Im using Novatel 3g card.

will it be the same if i followed your steps? as in uninstall Mobilink..
do you know what Bytemobile changes? perhaps it can be tweaked

ive read in some forum to edit registry key
microsoft>internet explorer>main>UseHP
change value to "0"

funny thing is i dont have this UseHP :)

[VodaGuy]

Hi

the reason why those steps need to be taken is that the software includes bytemobile optimisation. When you install software with bytemobile already installed, it takes note and does not install on top off that. So when you uninstall bytemobile, you are essentially stripping your computer off this.

Sometimes just setting bytemobile off or on low settings does not solve the problem. Just an uninstall does that.

I can only assume that the software you are using has this component installed as well. Can't see why taking the same steps won't create the same effect.


cheers

[swimfish]

i actually got it solved! i didnt install bytemobile. i just disable optimization for
everything else except HTTP. now i can access my mails and yahoo IM LOL

thanks!!

[John1170]

Swimfish care to share how you fixed this issue without using bytemobile?