Please welcome -Opera turbo

[shaunak]

Opera loves speed, we all know that. We work hard to make the browser faster with features that speeds you up, but your connection also has a saying how fast you can go.

That’s why we’ve been working on Opera Turbo, a server-side optimization and compression technology that provides significant improvements in browsing speeds over limited-bandwidth connections by compressing network traffic. This does not only make you surf faster, but also lowers the cost of browsing when you are on a pay per usage plan.

Please not that Turbo is not for everyone. If you're on a 10Mbit fiber connection, you will most likely have no result of enabling Turbo mode. However, imagine you're stuck on an airport with a slow Wi-Fi connection... Well, fire up Turbo and experience improved browsing speed.
Turbo Speed

Today we start our time limited test phase for Opera Turbo. Please read the labs release to learn more about Turbo and download it. You can also see it in action in the following video:
*www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xo-oQIxyJ...e-welcome-opera-turbo&feature=player_embedded

This is NOT google accelerator. It is not a local caching service. Its a proxy based service.

Source: *my.opera.com/chooseopera/blog/2009/03/13/please-welcome-opera-turbo

 

[gxsaurav]

I tried it & opened Orkut Homepage. The images were looking really really bad. You severely need to sacrifice image quality for speed.

 

[IronManForever]

^ And one could sacrifice under certain scenarios. I certainly would swear by it, if it gives a good improvement..

 

[topgear]

^^ Rightly said. Not everyone has a BB connection with blazing fast speed.
Think about remote users who still have to use their mobile with pc to get online.

@ shaunak - Thanks for sharing the info