[Ziproxy-users] Other use for ziproxy

[Michael O. <zu...@fr...>]

Hello,

I'm new to this list and I couldn't check the archives 
(http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=ziproxy-users seem 
to be down at the moment) to see if this has already been said before...

Ziproxy's home page says that it's intended to free bandwidth on dialup 
connections. While more and more people get access to high bandwidth 
Internet access, this may no longer be an issue.

However, mobile phones and PDAs that are used to browse the web 
definitely need such a tool, for bandwidth reasons of course, to reduce 
the time opening pages, but also mainly to reduce connection costs. With 
2.5G or 3G, you know that you don't pay for the time you spend, but for 
the number of bits you transfer over the air.

Using a compressing proxy like ziproxy can make a very significant 
difference on the bill!

For example, I'm soon going to have a GPRS subscription with 5 MB for 6 
euros  (~5 USD) per month, and I will be charged 15 euros for each 
additional MB! I'd better stay within the 5MB limit...

Perhaps you could mention this usage on ziproxy's home page...

At least, that's what I'm going to use ziproxy for!

    Thanks for developing this tool!

    Cheers,

    Michael.

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Michael Opdenacker
http://opdenacker.org/