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Tips to Save Your Internet Bandwidth
By admin | February 25, 2009
These tips may be useful if you use an internet connection with internet bandwidth quota or Volume Based.
1. Disable the function to load images and sound.
If you browse to a site and need only text information on the site, you can turn off the function to load images and sound.
For Firefox : Tools -> Options -> Content
For IE : Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced
2. Turn off the automatic update settings.
Several programs download updates automatically. Set off the automatic update on windows, as well as antivirus and software. You can change to the settings of manual update.
3. Install Add-ons Adblock Plus.
This plugin works for blocking ads that appear on a site when we open the site.
For firefox, you can install the add-ons Adblock plus (https: / / addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865).
Firefox add-ons is capable to block image ads and flash ads.
4. Use a compression program like toolnel images.
With this program, the data will be compressed before entering our computer.
You can download it from the http://www.toonel.net/downloads.html
5. Use Web mail that supports AJAX
Use the email services that support AJAX where the view works efficiently, so the data we download are smaller.
Web mail support AJAX, among others, GMail and Yahoo Mail with the new version.
6. Use only one browser.
Use only one browser. For example, if you use to use Firefox, and then continue to use Firefox, as well as Internet Explorer.
Because each browser has its own cache, so if you open a site that you have visited, the browser will not download all the data again, because some have been stored in your computer’s browser as a cache.
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