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I live in a major German city and I had until last month a limited mobile data contract. Once I ran out of data, I was downgraded to a slower speed. The way it
by probably_wrong 3y ago
I live in a major German city and I had until last month a limited mobile data contract. Once I ran out of data, I was downgraded to a slower speed. The way it apparently works is that, instead of delivering (say) 17Kb per second, they would deliver 1Mb at high speed and then nothing for the remaining 59 seconds. Almost every AJAX website would time out, with HN and i.reddit.com (RIP) being some of the few websites that would still work under these conditions. The classic GMail has a 50/50 chance of loading, but if it loads then it stays loaded.
I'm from South America and I've been to touristic places with real bad internet. People living there definitely feel these kind of choices.
- dangus 3y agoBut you don’t have that legacy plan anymore, do you? So now you don’t have this problem. Even if you still had this problem you would have an email client or Gmail app as an alternative, both options that can function offline and in spotty connections. I would guess this service is being deprecated because nobody is using it.
- klardotsh 3y agoYou seem hellbent convinced that bad connections don't matter if you can't personally see them. Consider that if you're here in a community full of some of the geekiest people to ever roam the planet and you have a wave of people telling you there's a problem, that there's probably hundreds of thousands of folks suffering in silence that you'll never hear from - maybe because their connection is throttled or high-ping or some other calamity.
- dangus 3y agoPOP predates HTML so I’m not even sure why this is a big deal considering that Google kept the lightest and oldest possible method of email access available.