Mobile Industry Review - Latest Comments in Bypassing o2’s data compression

Re: Bypassing o2’s data compression

Kip Hakes — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:46:29 -0000

Thats a bit crap - emoze works fine on 'bypass'.

Re: Bypassing o2’s data compression

James Whatley — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:37:40 -0000

Have had to change this back as Mail4Exchange wont connect using 'bypass'.

Re: Bypassing o2’s data compression

Ewan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:20:11 -0000

It's web page reformatting for the mobile browser they're doing, right?

Re: Bypassing o2’s data compression

Anthony — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:25:59 -0000

Is this what 3 have got planned? They mentioned something about a similar thing in July

Re: Bypassing o2’s data compression

James Whatley — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:53:19 -0000

Ahhhh... I've always used 'Contract Internet'.

Thanks Terence.

Re: Bypassing o2’s data compression

TerenceEden — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:22:33 -0000

If you're using "Contract WAP" as your access point, there shouldn't be any lossy compression.
To verify, live -> web -> web preferences.
There you can switch transcoding on or off. Even if it's on, you get a choice of high, medium, low compression - or no images.

Just tried it on my N95 8GB and I don't see any compression.

Re: Bypassing o2’s data compression

Kip Hakes — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:42:23 -0000

Is you Access Point name set as - mobile.o2.co.uk ?

Re: Bypassing o2’s data compression

James Whatley — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:29:28 -0000

Bah. I want it on my N95 8GB.

What if I be REALLY nice to you... ;)

Re: Bypassing o2’s data compression

TerenceEden — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:24:56 -0000

On the datacard software there is an option to reduce the compression, I think. You can selectively load images uncompressed by clicking SHIFT+F5 (I think. The alt-text of the image will tell you).

The only way I've found round it is
a) Use HTTPS where possible
b) Use a VPN

Re: Bypassing o2’s data compression

Kip Hakes — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:11:52 -0000

Not sure it is possible on Voda :(

Re: Bypassing o2’s data compression

James Whatley — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:43:58 -0000

Confirmed on my o2 N78.

(does anyone have a similar solution for Vodafone?!)