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Then you are in a bubble. I was recently asked by my elderly parents why they are paying for 5g internet when the internet resources they use are so slow, slowe

by tekla 2y ago

Then you are in a bubble. I was recently asked by my elderly parents why they are paying for 5g internet when the internet resources they use are so slow, slower than what they remember from 1997. They ask me to call our ISP because it makes no sense that the sites they have used for decades feel so slow All I could say was that there was nothing I could do.

ToucanLoucan 2y ago
Every time I use Facebook (which isn't many but still) I am re-shocked at how fucking SLOW it is. How many times I end up refreshing the page because some damn thing didn't connect quick enough, or maybe too quick and it wasn't ready, I'm not sure. YouTube is also great for this, like, 1/50 navigation clicks just results in a blank page with no error message. Ctrl-R to the rescue. Or the number of times Reddit's infinite scroll just... dies. Somewhere in the background, I don't know where. Like I can't think of any of these major platform websites where shit isn't just constantly tripping over it's own dick and breaking in often humorous but also just ridiculous ways.
- no_wizard 2y ago
  Insulated market forces allow certain platforms to operate like this with very few overall repercussions. They also don’t represent the overall web. I think it would be more far to take a sum of websites used, as opposed to number of users.
no_wizard 2y ago
That is a bit of an uncommon situation. Given the prevalence of things like 5G internet is typical in more rural or underdeveloped areas, the vast majority of the population of which don’t live. It’s a valid concern (as I think performance always is to be clear) but the majority are not on higher latency / limited bandwidth connections like 5G internet service as their primary ISP delivery tech. Vast majority are in cable or fiber at this point, given urban saturation

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Then you are in a bubble. I was recently asked by my elderly parents why they are paying for 5g internet when the internet resources they use are so slow, slowe

by tekla 2y ago

ToucanLoucan 2y ago
Every time I use Facebook (which isn't many but still) I am re-shocked at how fucking SLOW it is. How many times I end up refreshing the page because some damn thing didn't connect quick enough, or maybe too quick and it wasn't ready, I'm not sure. YouTube is also great for this, like, 1/50 navigation clicks just results in a blank page with no error message. Ctrl-R to the rescue. Or the number of times Reddit's infinite scroll just... dies. Somewhere in the background, I don't know where. Like I can't think of any of these major platform websites where shit isn't just constantly tripping over it's own dick and breaking in often humorous but also just ridiculous ways.
- no_wizard 2y ago
  Insulated market forces allow certain platforms to operate like this with very few overall repercussions. They also don’t represent the overall web. I think it would be more far to take a sum of websites used, as opposed to number of users.
no_wizard 2y ago
That is a bit of an uncommon situation. Given the prevalence of things like 5G internet is typical in more rural or underdeveloped areas, the vast majority of the population of which don’t live. It’s a valid concern (as I think performance always is to be clear) but the majority are not on higher latency / limited bandwidth connections like 5G internet service as their primary ISP delivery tech. Vast majority are in cable or fiber at this point, given urban saturation