Unless I can set Chrome to pretend to be a mobile browser perhaps?
I have about 20kbps (that’s kiloBITS!)

It’s doing my noggin in! I try to access the mobile versions of sites but certain ones autodetect and throw me back to the full desktop version.

Opera compresses things which should help a little.

Lynx if you’re using 2 cups and a bit of string…

Opera turbo.?

http://www.opera.com/turbo

you can turn off all images in chrome, all plug ins and java etc. should help a bit.

You might get away with changing your user agent string to something mobile. That’s probably how the auto-detect is working.

Thus,

http://www.howtogeek.com/113439/how-to-change-your-browsers-user-agent-without-installing-any-extensions/

http://www.technipages.com/google-chrome-change-user-agent-string

Or use a plug-in.

I got it to emulate a Galaxy tab…

Living in 1999?

No, 30 miles North of Aberdeen. In 1999 I was enjoying must faster speeds on dialup.

30 miles North of Aberdeen

1994 then 😉

Well done – I was just coming back to this thread, having remembered how I did it in Chrome (had looked in settings, but didn’t remember initially that I needed to go into dev tools). Though it’s changed from what it says in that first article.