--- rdobbins@arbor.net wrote: From: "Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins@arbor.net> On 11 Sep 2015, at 2:38, Scott Weeks wrote:
Anyone use or know how these work with the satellite networks?
All the features this supposedly has which makes it optimized for constrained-bandwidth environments, one can accomplish with any *NIX, including OSX (LittleSnitch provides a nice GUI for it). --------------------------------------- I was wondering if there was something like Opera Mobile's "optimizer server" in the satellite operator's network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mobile "...it can use Opera Turbo that compresses web pages via Opera Software's "Turbo" servers, thus reducing download size..." But, I am finding out that apparently there's not. I looked at LittleSnitch and see it seems a little different. The folks I'm talking to are on far-flung atolls where BW is so expensive it's shocking. So, I was wondering how the laptop company stops flash and images from transiting the satellite link. Someone told me that there is a way for the browser to say to the web server, send me only the parts of the web page I request. For example, send me everything but the flash and images. Being a browser wuss I thought the web server just sent everything and the browser decided whether to display it or not. That would mean the data already was transferred over the expensive sat link incurring the data costs. scott