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I've seen this point being brought up a lot, but I'm wondering how many of those people that actually lack good internet connection and live in developing world

by Ralfp 9y ago

I've seen this point being brought up a lot, but I'm wondering how many of those people that actually lack good internet connection and live in developing world may be your target anyway?

spc476 9y ago
I'm currently in South Florida, that just had Hurricane Irma blow through. I have no power (but I do have a generator [1]) and the DSL is down (no dial tone on the landline). I'm currently using my cellphone as a hotspot and an iPad as a laptop. I don't have a large data plan because, frankly, I don't use my cellphone as a hotspot all that often. But when I do, I am painfully aware of just how much crap is included on every page. Oh, Verizon makes me painfully aware. Yes, I could get the "unlimited" dataplan, but I don't use the dataplan to make it cost effective for me (the last time a hurriane knocked the power out for me was back in 2005). And I have it good! A few of my fellow cow-orkers have even worse cell coverage than I do. [1] Keeping the refridgerator, freezer, a couple of lamps, a few fans, and iPhone/iPad chargers going.
- roywiggins 9y ago
  For bandwidth emergencies I use Opera Mini, which can run everything through a compressing proxy before you get it- lossily compressing images (or even stripping them out) and reducing my bandwidth due to casual web browsing by about an order of magnitude. It works wonders on pages that are mostly text. You do have to not mind routing all your traffic through Opera's servers, though.
- Ralfp 9y ago
  I understand, but your situation is state emergency in which the very infrastructure is damaged, and not "the default" - you'll priorities will likely be different than ones people I'm targeting have and focused on recovering access to electricity/clean water, etc. ect. This will likely differ from people in so called rising markets too.

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I've seen this point being brought up a lot, but I'm wondering how many of those people that actually lack good internet connection and live in developing world

by Ralfp 9y ago

I've seen this point being brought up a lot, but I'm wondering how many of those people that actually lack good internet connection and live in developing world may be your target anyway?

spc476 9y ago
I'm currently in South Florida, that just had Hurricane Irma blow through. I have no power (but I do have a generator [1]) and the DSL is down (no dial tone on the landline). I'm currently using my cellphone as a hotspot and an iPad as a laptop. I don't have a large data plan because, frankly, I don't use my cellphone as a hotspot all that often. But when I do, I am painfully aware of just how much crap is included on every page. Oh, Verizon makes me painfully aware. Yes, I could get the "unlimited" dataplan, but I don't use the dataplan to make it cost effective for me (the last time a hurriane knocked the power out for me was back in 2005). And I have it good! A few of my fellow cow-orkers have even worse cell coverage than I do. [1] Keeping the refridgerator, freezer, a couple of lamps, a few fans, and iPhone/iPad chargers going.
- roywiggins 9y ago
  For bandwidth emergencies I use Opera Mini, which can run everything through a compressing proxy before you get it- lossily compressing images (or even stripping them out) and reducing my bandwidth due to casual web browsing by about an order of magnitude. It works wonders on pages that are mostly text. You do have to not mind routing all your traffic through Opera's servers, though.
- Ralfp 9y ago
  I understand, but your situation is state emergency in which the very infrastructure is damaged, and not "the default" - you'll priorities will likely be different than ones people I'm targeting have and focused on recovering access to electricity/clean water, etc. ect. This will likely differ from people in so called rising markets too.