Image Quality & SHIFT+R

[Guest]

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

 

[Ted Zieglar]

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'?

 

[Daniel Crichton]

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

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

 

[Guest]

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!

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Daniel Crichton]

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!

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

 

[Ted Zieglar]

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.