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Why were you using EDGE if there’s dense 4G coverage in Rome ?
by xchaotic 7y ago
Why were you using EDGE if there’s dense 4G coverage in Rome ?
- pantalaimon 7y agoReplace Rome with the German countryside and you'll still just have EDGE. Sites like Hacker News or https://i.reddit.com https://i.reddit.com are still perfectly usable. In contrast to the 'modern' Reddit UI that that takes a couple of seconds to load even on my home WiFi.
- itronitron 7y agoIt would be nice to have a maps/routing service that could just produce a basic HTML page with text directions from a given point A to another given point B. Bonus points if it also lists the before and after streets at direction changes so people know if they missed a turn. This could be implemented as a proxy to either of the maps apps (Google, Apple, OpenStreetMap)
- stjohnswarts 7y agoold.reddit.com is what you need to be using on your laptop if you're using i.reddit.com on your phone.
- bscphil 7y ago> In contrast to the 'modern' Reddit UI that that takes a couple of seconds to load even on my home WiFi. On my phone it takes about 4-5 seconds to load even on Gbit WiFi. It's so bad I have a conspiracy theory that the pulsing Reddit orb is just on a timer and it's not actually loading anything. More likely it's just horrifically unoptimized I suppose.
- jwcacces 7y ago(not gp) I have T-Mobile service in the USA, and my plan includes free international phone and data, but only at EDGE speeds. I could get a local SIM, but it's rarely worth it if I'm traveling to multiple countries.
- throwawayjava 7y agohttps://fi.google.com https://fi.google.com is great if you travel often.
- catalogia 7y agoShould the answer to that question even matter? Even a 56k modem should be more than sufficient to fetch a few measely bus schedules.
- megous 7y agoDidn't enable it, because 3G is usually fine. But there was lack of 3G in many places.