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A little bit of feedback: Quite large parts of the UK still have patchy 2G reception so this would not be practical for here. People on HN have been saying don'
by willyt 11y ago
A little bit of feedback: Quite large parts of the UK still have patchy 2G reception so this would not be practical for here. People on HN have been saying don't worry the network will catch up for years, but where I live the network coverage and speed is crap and hasn't changed at all in the last 5 years in the 80 miles between here and the nearest major city.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoI really, really wish startups stop assuming everyone has unlimited data plan and broadband Internet available 24/7. I'm not even begging for the common engineering sense anymore (don't route around half of the globe the data that has to travel only 5 meters in physical space; some data does not belong on the Internet, etc.), or even common decency. For practical reasons and the love of God, stop with the requirement of being constantly on-line to use a goddamn app.
- voltagex_ 11y agoI really need to register bandwidthprersevationsociety or something a bit shorter. I was initially going to say that developing nations are going to be left behind but that's not right, a lot of them have very good high-speed net access. Australia on the other hand - a lot of places are going to have a maximum of 25 mbit / 1 mbit for a long time due to the geniuses running our government. I'm on what is effectively 8/1 and I'm starting to struggle with the size of Windows Updates (8->8.1 failed multiple times resulting in a repeated 2GB download), XBox One games (20-40GB), streaming and RDP/Citrix/VPN for working from home. > I'm not even begging for the common engineering sense anymore OneDrive! It doesn't even implement any kind of LAN Sync - you'd think MS would have bolted on some of the newer SMB stuff like HomeGroup (which is discovery+SMB over IPv6 AFAICT) >For practical reasons and the love of God, stop with the requirement of being constantly on-line to use a goddamn app. Ubisoft managed to lock the whole of Australia out of one if its recent betas with this mentality.
- Natanael_L 11y ago"Data locality preservationists" :)
- TeMPOraL 11y agoI love it <3.
- voltagex_ 11y agosavethebytes.io? (and can you or anyone else chip in for that domain?)
- TeMPOraL 11y agoCount me in. I'm shooting you an e-mail.
- Natanael_L 11y agoDon't forget me! I'm sending you an email too
- niels_olson 11y agoI like it. Maybe a tie in with slow food?
- voltagex_ 11y agoWell we certainly have slow internet here. It'd be a good joke/political site to do a "slow internet movement" in the style of the "slow food movement"