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A counter point: not really. Well of course you get by, but streaming a youtube video alone is pushing it so browsing simultaneously will suffer. And if you wa
by tjoff 9y ago
A counter point: not really.
Well of course you get by, but streaming a youtube video alone is pushing it so browsing simultaneously will suffer. And if you want to download something it gets even worse and takes quite some time.
This obviously only gets worse and worse if the connection is shared.
Yes, it works - but for a power user it is quite limiting. But why not try it and upgrade if need be?
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y agoIt depends™ on your usecases. Personally, I stream YouTube at 360p most of the time because the extra pixels just don't matter (this is for entertainment; screencasts and the like need more for legible text). Most of my downloads run async (OS updates, packages to install, etc). I'm on a shared connection but we don't seem to have issues. Of course, you're right; all other things held fixed I'd rather have a faster connection. But in practice the cost is such that I'd want a compelling reason, and I just don't care that much.