Web pages that automatically update

One of the things that I find with Sprint Mobile Broadband is that I shy away from pages that automatically update after a set period. The "Broadband" in Sprint Mobile Broadband is not that "broad", so the automatic updates essentially hang my laptop when they are occurring. Because that is so annoying, I close any updating page when I realize what is happening. I just closed out of the Dallas Morning News when I found that it was updating.