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JULIOBE
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07-12-2025, 07:04 AM
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Hey everyone, today I have a fresh concept. I’m based in India where the internet speed is quite low—often under 50 kb/s on 4G. I thought about sending compressed packets through my cellular network, reducing them by 25%, and decompressing them right at my device when needed. With the latest smartphones and computers offering stronger processors and better memory, this could potentially boost my connection significantly.
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JULIOBE
07-12-2025, 07:04 AM #1

Hey everyone, today I have a fresh concept. I’m based in India where the internet speed is quite low—often under 50 kb/s on 4G. I thought about sending compressed packets through my cellular network, reducing them by 25%, and decompressing them right at my device when needed. With the latest smartphones and computers offering stronger processors and better memory, this could potentially boost my connection significantly.

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07-13-2025, 03:38 PM
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Compression behaves differently here. Much of the web content is either uncompressible or already compressed, meaning a compressor won’t help much. Some mobile browsers handle this by using a VPN for compression. Expect added delay from the extra steps.
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ylyes4
07-13-2025, 03:38 PM #2

Compression behaves differently here. Much of the web content is either uncompressible or already compressed, meaning a compressor won’t help much. Some mobile browsers handle this by using a VPN for compression. Expect added delay from the extra steps.

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07-13-2025, 06:33 PM
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The files you're downloading need to be smaller. They aren't because they were already reduced by the source with much stronger compression than 25%. For instance, just check the developer tools on this page and look at the headers... I'll demonstrate with this forum's main page, see the image below: At the top you'll notice the browser sent 26.34 KB, just the main page code without images or stylesheets, CSS, or fonts. That amount decompresses to 199.71 KB... meaning it's compressed to about 13.8% of its original size. You'll also see at the bottom right the browser's request saying... Accept encoding: gzip, deflate, br .... those three are compression techniques. Gzip is like the .gz archives, deflate is the classic zip compression, and br is a method called brotli, specifically designed for HTML pages and code with tags, offering excellent compression. At the top, you can see the forum server replied that it understands to compress using brotli (likely supporting all three, but choosing brotli as the best option) and then transmitted the compressed content. So your VPN won't be able to further compress much, since most sites already do. What about the rest... well, images are already compressed, music is compressed, videos are compressed... maybe some stylesheets or random HTML files could be reduced, but that would probably account for less than 10% of online activity. Also worth mentioning that most websites now use encryption, making it a bit harder to compress pages and similar content. If you're aiming for faster internet, consider skipping images, using an adblock, or even turning off JavaScript (though many sites would break without it).
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07-13-2025, 06:33 PM #3

The files you're downloading need to be smaller. They aren't because they were already reduced by the source with much stronger compression than 25%. For instance, just check the developer tools on this page and look at the headers... I'll demonstrate with this forum's main page, see the image below: At the top you'll notice the browser sent 26.34 KB, just the main page code without images or stylesheets, CSS, or fonts. That amount decompresses to 199.71 KB... meaning it's compressed to about 13.8% of its original size. You'll also see at the bottom right the browser's request saying... Accept encoding: gzip, deflate, br .... those three are compression techniques. Gzip is like the .gz archives, deflate is the classic zip compression, and br is a method called brotli, specifically designed for HTML pages and code with tags, offering excellent compression. At the top, you can see the forum server replied that it understands to compress using brotli (likely supporting all three, but choosing brotli as the best option) and then transmitted the compressed content. So your VPN won't be able to further compress much, since most sites already do. What about the rest... well, images are already compressed, music is compressed, videos are compressed... maybe some stylesheets or random HTML files could be reduced, but that would probably account for less than 10% of online activity. Also worth mentioning that most websites now use encryption, making it a bit harder to compress pages and similar content. If you're aiming for faster internet, consider skipping images, using an adblock, or even turning off JavaScript (though many sites would break without it).

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