Sentences with phrase «over slow connections»

This is a method some desktop e-mail programs have used for years over slow connections.

That shows Snapchat is figuring out how to serve ads over slower connections to older phones even though the app depends on data - heavy video.

It's not nearly as efficient to browse, say, a Twitter feed when your brain needs to separate text from a background visual, and waiting for the latter to load over a slow connection gets old quickly.

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They can hide whatever you do over that connection from an ISP — and are often used to get around regional blackout policies for certain streams — but they're usually slower, and setting them up is a process.

I got home late from the gym due to horrible traffic, spent over an hour on the phone with internet people because our connection was SO slow, and well then I had to... [Read more...]

I created my first online dating profile over 16 years ago to heal my wounds during the days of the slow dial up connection, where I'd receive a hefty $ 300 monthly bill while looking for love online.?

With a silly name, zero budget, no history in Baltimore, and very few personal connections to the educational community, I expected this to be a small effort that would slowly grow over time, much like the slow, steady growth of a mustache,» shared Saha.

Kindle Lite consumes less memory on a customer's phone while providing a great reading experience — even over slow internet connections and patchy networks.

Due to differing ranges of Internet connections available to client systems used by the online users ranging from modems to local area networks, N05CFTC has to be able to operate over network connections as slow as 32 kilobits per second (or even slower), or as fast as 100 megabits per second (or faster).

Duke long argued that the state's PURPA rules were too favorable for clean energy, and two years ago began slowing to a trickle connections of large solar arrays to its grid, leaving developers over a barrel.

Put out by Aptivate, Loband is a free service that simplifies web pages in order to make them download faster over slow Internet connections.

On top of all that, the app was slow on my iPhone, with pages taking several seconds to load and in one case more than five minutes over a strong 3G connection.

As of late, accusations have flown back and forth over who is to blame for the slow down (the image above is from Reed Hasting's blog post arguing for «strong» net neutrality that would require free connections), and Wheeler says he wants to bring some transparency to the deals.

Over the past couple of years, «lite» versions of applications have become fairly popular in emerging markets with slower data connections.

Over the last several months, players have complained that some people have used denial - of - service attacks to slow down a competitor's connection and gain an advantage in online play.

Yes, in addition to supporting streaming over your home internet connection, the JBL Playlist can also be streamed to via Bluetooth, which is helpful if your home network is being slow or unreliable.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.