AndyJarrett

Size Matters

I picked up my Vodafone Connect Datacard yesterday (thanks for card Mike), and joined myself onto the Vodafone 3G network. Usually, in the hotel i usually stay in, i have to use GPRS from my mobile over bluetooth - DAMN thats slow. So connecting at near 400kbs last night was sweet. But while playing around (on the lowest tariff which give you 5mb download a month) i noticed my usage being sucked away quickly - and that was just by going to Gmail and looking at the email headers (i think the initial download is about (200kb+), even Macromedia.com is about 300kb.Then you realise that all this CSS and small download size starts to REALLY matter again - not that it ever stopped