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Originally posted by chrisac1284
I believe this post goes under the "tips" category:

I use Orb, so I figured I'd do a little test of the three big browsers and their speeds. (this applies to all users of web browsing) I did this test using the WiFi connection at my house - not EVDO - to get a reliable and repeatable data rate. I have a PC upstream speed of 900kbps, and on my laptop I usually get a downstream of 1.5mbps with the built in speed test of Orb (in reality my connection surges to 5mbps when connected to Usenet). Pocket Internet Explorer was able to connect to Orb with just a mere 177kbps-270kbps, repeatabley, though I have seen seen it has high as 400kbps with EVDO in the past. Minimo got an astounding 1.9mpbs, but it did so with literally about 100 security certificate warnings. its still a beta, so hopefully they will fix that. the new Opera beta was able to connect at a very fast 1.4mbps, and did so flawlessly. so moral of the story: if you use Orb, use Opera, and even if you don't use Orb Opera seems to load much faster for normal pages (and it might mitigate having to hack PIE to show as v6.0 to log into secure web sites like banks. The only catch with Opera and Orb is that you have to manually open the stream after clicking on the link, which isn't a big deal as it only requires one extra click for over a megabit of bandwidth gain! hope this helps...

you could always just set the orb speed manually instead of using the speed test - that would avoid the need for opera...the streaming is through wmp10 or tcpmp so the bandwidth issue is not related to the browser - you could also do the speed test again manually (look at the bottom of the my.orb.com page) and it usually is more accurate that way...i log into orb, it does the auto speed test, and then i do a speed test again to get a more accurate result.

-jeff