BGAN Optimized Laptops

[blakjak at blakjak.net (Mark Foster)]

On 11/09/2015 1:49 p.m., Roland Dobbins wrote:
>
> On 11 Sep 2015, at 8:14, Scott Weeks wrote:
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>> For example, send me everything but the flash and images.
>
> This is a preference setting on most Web browsers.  Lynx works well 
> for this, too, on *NIX systems, if the users can use a terminal.
>
> Equivalent for email clients - headers-only, only download message on 
> demand, only download attachments on demand, etc.

My first thought on seeing the post was the work I used to do for 
satellite-linked networks around TCP config optimisation.
This was on XP clients so i've no idea how aplicable it is to more 
modern desktops, but the simple way was to make use of tools such as TCP 
Optimizer[1].

Also had a lot of success with WAFS type devices such as the Riverbed 
Steelhead and their ilk, which goes a bit beyond OP's scope, in terms of 
making low-bandwidth high-latency links more optimal.

Cheers
Mark.

[1] http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php and 
http://www.speedguide.net/articles.php?category=99 which I note talks 
about Windows 7,8,10 and 2012 server, so this must still be a 'thing'.