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Coming from a low bandwidth, high latency part of the world, I can't confirm this enough. Today, I have 2 mbit and can use Netflix or Youtube just fine, but me
by motoboi 11y ago
Coming from a low bandwidth, high latency part of the world, I can't confirm this enough.
Today, I have 2 mbit and can use Netflix or Youtube just fine, but mere 4 years ago, I had 600k and, boy, that was hard. Hard as in loading youtube URL and go for a coffee.
UPDATE:
In case Duolingo developers are listening, please test your site on high latency and very low bandwidth scenarios. I just love your site, but lessons behave too strangely when internet is bad here.
- malka 11y ago> Hard as in loading youtube URL and go for a coffee. You can't even to that now. Youtube videos buffer about 1m30 of videos and stops after that :(
- voltagex_ 11y agoI understand that Google is doing this to save an immense amount of wasted bandwidth. These days if I need to wait for something to load, I use youtube-dl.
- motoboi 11y agoAt the time, I wrote an Chrome extension that would select the lowest resolution (240p at the time), but I can't remember if it was capable of autoplay.
- robin_reala 11y agoMy train commute into work is the perfect place to brush up with Duolingo. Shame it randomly goes through patches of no signal, as this makes Duolingo fairly unusable. I have to time my practice to fit into the areas I know it’ll work in.
- jlangenauer 11y agoIf you're looking for an alternative to Duolingo, give Memrise a try. It allows you to download entire lessons for offline use.