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It’s not just slow devices, it’s also any time you have any kind of weak connectivity. I think every OS now has tools to let you simulate shitty network perfor
by olliej 3y ago
It’s not just slow devices, it’s also any time you have any kind of weak connectivity.
I think every OS now has tools to let you simulate shitty network performance these days so it’s inexcusable that so many sites and even native apps fail so badly anytime you have anything less than a mbit connection or greater than 50ms latency :-/
- layer8 3y agoIt’s not just weak connectivity. I know people in rural areas who still have less than 1 Mbps internet speed over their DSL landline. Using the internet there isn’t a lot of fun.
- olliej 3y agoWhich is absurd when you think that the internet used to be usable on 14.4k modems. I remember having to plan to take up hours of time on our phone line to download giant files that were smaller than many basic webpages these days (ignoring things like photos where there's obviously a basic size/quality tradeoff + more pixels)
- layer8 3y agoYes, 1 Mbps was actually high-speed internet 25 years ago.
- genewitch 3y agoWhen i first moved to where i live now DSL had a waitlist, so i tried both a verizon hotspot (myfi!) and dialup. Dialup with HTML gmail (for slow connections!) took minutes to load. IRC was completely usable, but hangouts was not. danluu's website would have loaded just fine, as an example. I just remembered that after getting DSL if more than one person decided to watch a youtube video the pings went up in the 1000ms range.