I was in rural China with an EDGE connection on Google Fi last month. Hacker News was pretty much the only site I visit that could reliably load quickly. m.fa

I was in rural China with an EDGE connection on Google Fi last month. Hacker News was pretty much the only site I visit that could reliably load quickly. m.facebook.com had a slight wait but was still bearable. I had to leave my phone for 10 or 15 minutes to get Google News. WeChat and email worked well. Everything else was horrible, especially ad networks that would ping pong several requests or load large images. Opera has a compression proxy mode that helped a bit when it worked but it was still painful. For search results, Stack Overflow, and YouTube, it was easier to easier to ssh into an AWS node and use elinks/youtube-dl. Using SSH as a socks proxy/compression was insanely slow due to something with with the great firewall.