I remember many years ago when i had a 3G internet connection (which sometimes even had to work via 2G networks) for my laptop, the service would automatically

I remember many years ago when i had a 3G internet connection (which sometimes even had to work via 2G networks) for my laptop, the service would automatically recompress images to lower bandwidth and speed up times. To enable the connection i had to use a custom tool (it was essentially a fancy terminal - AFAIK it communicated with the 3G dongle using AT commands) which also had an option to adjust the (ISP-side) compression (i could disable it, leave it at default or make everything look like garbage but load fast...ish :-P).