>a fiddly modem connection at 300 baud, compared to that what you get on smartphones is excellent. No, both those examples are terrible. The 300 baud modem bec

>a fiddly modem connection at 300 baud, compared to that what you get on smartphones is excellent. No, both those examples are terrible. The 300 baud modem because of the low speed and the smart phone LTE connection because the round trip time is highly variable and TCP backoff applies a heavy penalty. Additionally, most smart phone internet connections don't have ports or even an ipv4 and are behind Carrier-NAT. Given that, I'd prefer the 300 baud modem.