All Images in web browser are fuzzy and compressed!!

crs1247 · EVDO Newbie Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 8

Just tonight when I connected to the internet using my alltel EVDO krazr, all of the images in my firefox and IE are fuzzy and compressed. All of the images are showing as coming from 1.1.1.5 . What is going on, All of my pictures on my computer are fine, but when I load up any page with pictures in my web browers they are all fuzzy and compressed. Does anyone know what is going on. By the way I am in Chatham, VA if that helps.

Irythros · EVDO Newbie Joined: 06 May 2008 Posts: 6

Same here. Images are highly compressed and are being routed through 1.1.1.1-6

Im located at Mount Olive, North carolina. Errors started around 2:30 AM est for me after I was disconnected. Using a Huawei 360 (Which sucks for anyone who was going to ask).

Edit:
Searching a bit more, I think this is a leak from an alltel email:

karlyn · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 4:40 am Post subject:

Same here in Lynchburg this morning, must be our regions' turn. This is the first I've seen the compressed images. See "Forcing Downgraded Content?" or "1.1.1.x is back..." for other mentions. Hopefully things get back to normal, or are better, once they finish implementation.

Edit to add -- the speed test sites aren't working properly for me right now either. Both Speakeasy.net and Speedtest.net seem to abort during the download process. Testmy.net seems to work just fine.

Alex · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 7:13 am Post subject:

Karlyn, can we do a test please?

Email me your 'compressed version' of this image, so i can post it for comparison:

BlueRidge1985 · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 06 May 2008 Posts: 25

Same problem here in Pickens SC with fuzzy compressed images.......this sucks!

jfarris · EVDO Junkie Joined: 10 May 2007 Posts: 205

We've had this since late April consistently, but I've never seen the compressed images. What I notice is a tendency to occasionally hang in the middle of rendering pages in Firefox, and youtube has been acting a little funny if it has to access google's video cache.

giblaut · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 9:13 am Post subject:

I started having this problem last night. It seems to be exactly as described in this thread:

evdoforums.com/thread1053.html

Arghh. I hate being "helped" like this. I'd rather have the slower downloads.

Editing to add: I'm near Ruckersville, Virginia.

giblaut · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 11:04 am Post subject:

FWIW, I just called Alltel. They say the data compression should not affect the visual quality of the pictures. They had me do a card reactivation, which fixed the problem.

In Axcess mobile, go to Tools, Activation, OK--that will reactivate (re-start) the card.

karlyn · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 11:20 am Post subject:

Thanks for posting that, giblaut -- my air card is in the router now so I'll have to wait and try that later.

Oddly enough, Alex's image isn't compressed (!?) but I'm going to see if I can pull something else off 3Gstore's site since other images still are. Doesn't matter which platform or browser I'm using. [EDIT -- apparently the only pages I'm still seeing degraded images on are those I visited this morning and are still cached. Image quality is fine otherwise and browsing seems normal.]

@jfarris -- youtube videos still work for me although it's hard to tell if the image quality is worse than normal.

jfarris · EVDO Junkie Joined: 10 May 2007 Posts: 205

I haven't noticed any difference in quality when videos work on youtube, just that many don't want to work. I may try reactivating the card tonight, though.

daverup · EVDO User Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 48

Did re-activation stop the caching proxy?
I'm getting the 1.1.1.x garbage now too...

ansar · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 9:50 am Post subject:

Reactivation did not get rid of my 1.1.1.x proxy. I really hope they decide to not use the proxy. My wife is already upset with how slow a lot of her sites are because they have lots of little images on them.

jfarris · EVDO Junkie Joined: 10 May 2007 Posts: 205

No...still a proxy. I'm still not seeing grainy images, but I'm noticing that sites are loading faster, mainly because I'm not getting the pause in the middle while it's accessing one of the proxies.

daverup · EVDO User Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 48

I guess I'm wondering whether or not this is a contract breaking change on Alltel's end. I've only got a few months left, but I'm not going to pay a termination fee.
I will take my business elsewhere if this proxy garbage continues.

Krileon · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 11:28 am Post subject: