There ought to be a "sticky" somewhere about this: the term "Turbo" really is only accurate for those who need the speed-up effects they get from it on a very slow down-link like dial-up. Opera Turbo routes your browser traffic through Opera servers in order for them to compress the traffic coming from a website and thereby reducing the bandwidth and content-volume required to display a site page. On very slow user ISP connections, this actually speeds up the page display, albeit at the cost of image fidelity due to compression; it also reduces the bandwidth consumed, for those who are being billed for bandwidth used. Otherwise, the overhead of routing the down-headed traffic through Opera's servers and the employment of compression software on those servers can actually slow down the process significantly for users who don't need it because of a very slow ISP link.