Do you use Opera Turbo?
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I use generally Turbo when I am on holiday or business trip with slow connections on mobile. It is really usefully and profitable as well of course
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Luckily I don't have a metered connection and my connection is quite fast so I don't use Turbo because it is slower than my normal connection.
If I do some real speed surfing because I am hunting down information, I am only interested in text anyway. Then I switch everything like plugins, images and scripting off. For me that is the fastest way to surf but the mileage may vary for others.
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Only 5km away from here is a village where the users only can get a 1Mbit/s connection because of technical reasons. There Turbo is a boon - but I have heard they will be connected via LTE in 2 or 3 month … -
yes when i need a proxy , not for sensitive things of course but to see some pages
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I'm using off-road in my everyday surfing (and was using turbo with old opera) because I'm on metered mobile connection (hsdpa). I'm not using it to speed up surfing (it's actually faster without off-road) but because of data savings. I burn my 20 GB monthly package very easy :silly:
I must say, off-road works flawlessly. It is the only shiny thing that keeps me with Opera Blink. Tried couple of other compression proxies, they all sucks (didn't tried google flywheel tho)
From my experience, off-road is about 20-25% more efficient then turbo.
There is a new off-road 2 mode in developer channel, and my subjective feeling is that surfing trough OF2 proxies is more snappier and responsive -
I use it all the times with Opera Mini on my phone. Turbo save more than 90% of my usage and it's of course enabled by default. It save me money and my navigation is significantly faster with turbo on.
On my desktop browser Turbo is off by default.
I only use it when I use my phone as a modem. I can't see real difference in navigation speed but it still saves data from my mobile plan. -
Never on desktop. On mobile it might be usefull.
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Never, i have a fast connection.
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Not very often. But sometimes.
My connection isn't very good. Only about 2Mbps. My usage cap isn't really an issue.
When my connection is slow, it's usually because someone else is downloading excessively. So, while Turbo helps a little bit, I usually have a latency issue. It takes a long time for the connection to start doing anything, but once it does it's not too bad whether I use Turbo or not.
But there are definitely times it is useful. And while I don't use data on my phone right now, if I did, I would definitely take advantage of Turbo.
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With me having Dial Up Internet, you would think I'd be the perfect candidate for Opera Turbo. That said, after trying it out once, I immediately didn't care for it. I don't care for anything that washes out, degrades the quality of images.
Even more so when it is the images of a Blog Design.
Heck, probably the straw that broke the camel's back was that even Charlie Brown in my simple Avatar looked like he had freckles and or the measles because of Opera Turbo's work. I immediately went, "Nope. Nuh Uh. No contest. Not up for debate. Opera Turbo's not for me."So I don't use it at all.
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I use it on the way when on 3G networks with my netbook, for speedup and to save traffic.
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For slow connections (and mobile naturally) it is an awesome feature! It should be implemented for those who need it. (Slow con.)
For me it´s not important, because I have a very fast con. But it´s certainly important for users which don´t have high-speed internet. -
Not a lot.
Almost only when I'm in Asia. -
Opera Turbo is actually a good idea, especially for phones. But that's not necessary for a regular browser. I would prefer if they kept the browser with old features instead of Turbo. Only the browser features made me use Opera.
Opera Turbo can be useful even if you are on fast internet. I use it on two websites (one is DailyMail), which have often a lot of pictures (several MB, e.g. new Flickr had sometimes 30 MB per page).
I can wait 2-3 seconds for a page to load, but not half a minute or more.
It's good if you don't care about the pictures, just the article. Sometimes I forget to turn it off. -
Useful with mobile devices, not a lot now with desktop browsers.
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I tried Turbo but my line is pretty fast. I actually found Turbo to be slower. Such as the NY Times where under Turbo there was a delay loading pages.
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If I'm tethered to my phone I will use Opera Turbo but I don't tether often. Also I heavily use Opera Mini to save data but I guess OBML is a bit different than Opera Turbo.
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I'm use Opera Turbo on Opera mini Android. And If I'm in the countryside, not in the city. This is a great thing to use in the village.
With love from Russia! -
Always because I use my phone as a modem and Turbo helps saving data. I sometimes browse without images too.
I agree with debbie too that Turbo reliability and performance declined. -
In large parts of the US (outside cities), not even xdsl is available. You have the choice between dial-up and wireless, and wireless has a monthly maximum.
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Yes I do use Opera Turbo but only on my phone since on my desktop has I a direct wired connection.