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You get less than a quarter the speed of dialup?

• mey 2y ago
  Some potential reasons - Remote backhaul / Satellite / Offshore - Subsidized/cheap wireless plan - Going over data cap, some carriers fall into a "safety" mode instead of charging you extra. I pay for 8gb/mo and would get throttled to similar speeds - Preference
  • superkuh 2y ago
    Plus all wireless transmissions of internet stuff that use TCP will experience random round trip time (rtt) leading to problematic and ever increasing TCP re-transmit delay after back-off.
  • paulddraper 2y ago
    > Preference I don't kink shame, but slowed websites is an odd one.
  • wegfawefgawefg 2y ago
    My brand new OnePlus8pro was blacklisted in Japan for being under the oppo brand a couple years ago. (The system in japan works on whitelisting, its corrupt and stupid) Anyways I had a $1000 phone, and I was not about to throw it away. So I continued to use it via an American cell company, which gives me just enough internet for wikipedia. Google maps doesnt work about 70% of the time. Since then I have realized not having good internet is good for my brain. It keeps me reading gigamonkeys and downloading pdf's before I go places rather than doomscrolling twitter.
• MostlyStable 2y ago
  Back when I was on satellite, I wouldn't say those speeds were the norm, but they certainly weren't unusual.