Cingular is controlling my pixels!!

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I didn't want to post this in the Cingular forum because I'm it affects the S60 aspect of my device. (or something like that)

I was browsing on the S60 mobile site and trying to download their greeting cards (see post here ) and I noticed that the banner image was messed up a bit. Also, the images of the mms backgrounds don't appear at all.

I'm using Cingular's unlimited MediaNet on my N73. Now when I tried it on the N93 using my T-Mobile account there wasn't a problem. At first I thought it was the phone itself but I switched sims and the same thing happened. Is or has this happened to anyone else? And if someone can please test this for me.
 
As far as i should guess is that they are trying to limit the amount of bandwidth that you use. best thing you can do is place them side by side, if they load at the same time, Cingular are screwin with you, but if Cingular loads faster, it means they have taken cspeed over pixel quailty.

Hope it helps.
 
Hey Darla -- if I'm not mistaken, doesn't Cingular use a proxy server regardless if it's unlimited media or not? (as opposed to T-Mo, who doesn't use one for the unlmited plan) It sure sounds like this based on your description, the data bits flowing through Cincular are maybe going through a "thing" (skweezer.net?) skewing your images or whatnot.

Random guess.
 
I tried it yesterday while I was out and they did in fact load at the same speed. But doesn't this mean that they also have control over wap sites? Same thing with Flickr Mobile. When I go to view images they all show up as messed up pixelated black and white images!
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.1; U; en-us) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413 UP.Link/6.3.0.0.0)

Ditto the guy above me
 
The Cingular proxy does indeed mess with images, but not all images. I encountered this first with photos on fotki.com, which it actually manages to destroy rather than degrade (they end up all green and black).

However, you can configure an access point not to use their proxy under Configuration/Connection/Access Points. Select Media Net, then Options/Advanced. Erase "wireless.cingular.com", and you'll be proxyless. Alternatively, set up another access point identical to Media Net, but without the proxy. The cingular homepage will no longer work obviously, but you'll get undistorted images. I've noticed absolutely no impact on speed.
 
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