BGAN Optimized Laptops

[surfer at mauigateway.com (Scott Weeks)]

--- rdobbins at arbor.net wrote:
From: "Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins at arbor.net>
On 11 Sep 2015, at 2:38, Scott Weeks wrote:

> Anyone use or know how these work with the satellite networks?

All the features this supposedly has which makes it optimized for 
constrained-bandwidth environments, one can accomplish with any *NIX, 
including OSX (LittleSnitch provides a nice GUI for it).
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I was wondering if there was something like Opera Mobile's
"optimizer server" in the satellite operator's network:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mobile

"...it can use Opera Turbo that compresses web pages via 
Opera Software's "Turbo" servers, thus reducing download 
size..."

But, I am finding out that apparently there's not.  

I looked at LittleSnitch and see it seems a little different.  
The folks I'm talking to are on far-flung atolls where BW is 
so expensive it's shocking.  So, I was wondering how the 
laptop company stops flash and images from transiting the 
satellite link.  

Someone told me that there is a way for the browser to say 
to the web server, send me only the parts of the web page I 
request.  For example, send me everything but the flash and 
images.  Being a browser wuss I thought the web server just 
sent everything and the browser decided whether to display 
it or not.  That would mean the data already was transferred 
over the expensive sat link incurring the data costs.

scott