Image Quality & SHIFT+R

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Hi,

I am having a problem with my laptop running IE6

When I load a page it gives me all of the images but in very low quality...
When I point at an image it then gives me the option to load press SHIFT+R to
improve the image quality - this works fine but I would like IE to open the
images in the higher quality mode without all the time - without having to
press the SHIFT+R combination. How can I diasble this feature or set IE6 up
to do this?

Martin
 
By any chance are you using one of those dialup ISPs that promise 'speed
like broadband'? Or are you using some other form of 'download accelerator'?
 
Martin wrote on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 05:03:01 -0700:
Hi,

I am having a problem with my laptop running IE6

When I load a page it gives me all of the images but in very low
quality... When I point at an image it then gives me the option to load
press SHIFT+R to improve the image quality - this works fine but I would
like IE to open the images in the higher quality mode without all the time
- without having to press the SHIFT+R combination. How can I diasble this
feature or set IE6 up to do this?

Martin
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Last time I saw this on a laptop here it was due to the ISP modifying the
web pages on the fly with javascript and providing lower res images via a
transparent proxy in order to reduce download bandwidth (it was over a
GPRS/3G link), and there was no way to disable it (it was setting at the ISP
end with no option to allow customers to override it).

Dan
 
Hi Daniel,

This is also through a GPRS/3G connection via T-Mobile. I have already
spoken to them about this and they assure me that they do not do anything
like this but I now begin to get the feeling the 'tech support' person I
spoke to did not have all the answers.

I will investigate further - but I believe you may be right!
 
Hi Ted,

I am using a GPRS/3G connection as I work on the road!

The connection is through T-mobile.

If you have any info at all it would be appreciated.
 
Martin wrote on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:52:02 -0700:
Hi Daniel,

This is also through a GPRS/3G connection via T-Mobile. I have already
spoken to them about this and they assure me that they do not do anything
like this but I now begin to get the feeling the 'tech support' person I
spoke to did not have all the answers.

I will investigate further - but I believe you may be right!
Click to expand...

I'm pretty sure you'll find it's a T-Mobile proxy doing this. I'm on
Vodafone and get the same thing. I also found these:

http://www.electricdeath.com/blog/999 (includes a reply stating that
T-Mobile has the same compression "feature" as Vodafone)

http://groups.google.com/group/comp...+of+this+image"&rnum=1&hl=en#533ee9a086f7bdcb


I've also seen mention that it can be disabled on T-Mobile. You should be
able to do this by going to http://getmorespeed.t-mobile.com using your
T-Mobile card (it's only accessible on a T-Mobile connection using the
T-Mobile DNS servers).

Dan
 
I'm still in the Stone Age and don't use a wireless connection. I would
not be surprised if your ISP tried reduce the quality of graphics
received over the wireless connection to conserve bandwidth for others.
But that's just a guess.
 
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