Reduce Your Bandwidth Bill

If you’re one of those poor internet users who have to pay by the Megabyte, or have a capped allowance then techbuzz have 5 good tips (and 1 silly tip) for reducing your bandwidth usage, so that you can surf more. I’ve never come across these applications before, because I have an unlimited pipe which in some months downloads obscene amounts of data.

techbuzz’s five tips are:

• Onspeed: Download this application to compress text and images before downloading.

• FlashBlock Extension: Great firefox extension that will block these bandwidth heavy (and usually annoying) ads

• Imglikeopera Extension: Another firefox extension. This one loads images from a cache

• Adblock Extension: Blocks annoying ads

• Use a email client rather than a webmail client as these can use up a lot of bandwidth

What was the silly tip, I hear you ask? Switch to an unlimited plan