This has been covered before here: Hacking T-Mobile Web Proxy, indeed I discovered the fix from that page so all credit to lewiz.org.
However, this is such a fundamental issue as far as I'm concerned that I think it needs more publicity. T-mobile are selling mobile broadband packages and as far as I'm concerned that means the ability to view a webpage how it was intended to be viewed. Not as though viewed on a blurry 256 bit screen.
The problem is more threatening on the Mac because there is no apparent way around it at all. In IE on Windows if you hover over an image you see a tooltip explaining how to increase the quality of the image.
The solution is to use Firefox with an extension installed called 'Modify Headers'. You'll need to configure the extension once after its installed. You'll see at the top of it's window a drop down where you can choose 'Add', 'Modify' or 'Filter'. We want to choose 'Add'. Then in the next text input enter 'Pragma' (without quote marks) and then in the second text input add 'no-cache' (again without quote marks). Click the add button to add this rule. Then you need to add another rule. Again choose 'Add' from the drop down, then enter 'Cache-Control' and 'no-cache' into the two text inputs. Add this rule and make sure they are both enabled, they should have a green dot by them. Thats it. You should be able to surf away as you expect now.
Of course its still regrettable that one can't use Safari. If anyone knows a way to make Safari modify headers please let us know.
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Mike.Hey i was ripped of by this also not only did thay say fastest broadband, but they also told me i could play games with it, but i cant as they are playing about with the ports on my bandwidth
Written on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 5:36hrs by Mike
Any idea how to apply this to vodafone who use type same kind of system? I think it's a complete rip-off and probably, in some real sense, illegal breach of copyright.
Written on Friday, June 13, 2008 at 2:52hrs by Chris
http://aitne.com/These very clever people do a patch to stop the vodafone compression on a Mac. Wonderful.
Written on Friday, June 13, 2008 at 4:05hrs by chris
I use T Mobile's Web n Walk service and, for £15 a month, I think the fact that they're compressing images so much they become nothing more than a pixelated blur is an absolute rip-off. Not only is their "unlimited bandwith" advert a lie (you get 3GB) but it's not all that fast (supposedly 7MB a second; more like 1MB a second in reality) but the images are making me not even want to bother going online in the first place.
Written on Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 10:49hrs by Rachel
Sheesh, the things people complain about! For £15 per month, the service provided (at least, when I joined a couple of months ago)clearly states that it is 2Mb (note: this will improve in time, and most likely long before your contract is up) and anybody with an ounce of noodle knows that bandwidth on mobile networks depends stricty upon reception quality (not signal strength) - sit in Parliament Square with your laptop and you'll most likely see your full bandwidth realised. In the meantime, please feel free to point me in the direction of a cable/phone-based ADSL service that provides you with 1Mb upstream for £15 per month. Perhaps I can make up my criticisms by helping you Windows users out a little. Download T-Mobile Web Accelerator from http://lastmile.t-mobile.co.uk.
Written on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 13:11hrs by G.Harrington