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I am sure the privileged kids willing and able to pay 150k USD for university education in US have a very reliable network at home.
by nlitened 6y ago
I am sure the privileged kids willing and able to pay 150k USD for university education in US have a very reliable network at home.
- waheoo 6y agoYou severely misunderstand the realities of international students. You're making sweeping generalization about a lot of people you know nothing about.
- nrser 6y agoThe further you get in physical/geopolitical distance from the US the more you invalidate assumptions that many US sites and services make. I've had sites fail because my local time can be one calendar day _ahead_ of theirs... and how could you be doing something in the future? Once you get into regions with a combination of censorship on the foreign-side and aggressive 'security' measures on the US-side (blocking/triggering on IP ranges of entire countries, VPN services, could services, etc... 'cause why would a legit user be coming in through anything like that, right?) then it really gets rough. Generally, to reliably serve a country/region it requires specific expertise, personnel and/or infrastructure. And BTW when I priced out a "reliable" connection in Beijing years ago it was around $1K USD/mo for 10Mb. Not exactly peanuts.
- solarengineer 6y agoFyi, There are parts of the world where money can't buy you steady electricity, safety at home (an especially important point for women and LGBT), reliable internet access.
- henearkr 6y agoFwiw, there are also scholarships.