Opera Mobile routing traffic via China!
Few months ago I moved away from Google Chrome to Opera Mobile on my Android device. Google Chrome is pretty loaded and overall slow. Recently I noticed browsing was pretty slow. I noticed that “Off-Road mode” was enabled.
I disabled it and performance was much better. I did heard of it in past and clearly it’s a proxy mode where packets between Opera instance running on cell phone and destination server are routed via an Opera server which uses some special compression technologies and helps in making browsing faster. Carrying with my obsession for looking at ASNs and IP address, I enabled it again and visited bgp.he.net and was surprised to see the result.