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Experiencing the internet at 2000ms latency every month or so thanks to dead spots along train tracks, the latency improvements quickly become noticeable. HTTP
by jeroenhd 2y ago
Experiencing the internet at 2000ms latency every month or so thanks to dead spots along train tracks, the latency improvements quickly become noticeable.
HTTP/3 is terrible for fast connections (with download speeds on gigabit fiber notably capped) and great for bad ones (where latency + three way handshakes make the web unusable).
Perhaps there should be some kind of addon/setting for the browser to detect the quality of the network (doesn't it already for some JS API?) and dynamically enable/disable HTTP/3 for the best performance. I can live with it off 99% of the time, but those rare times I'm dropped to 2G speeds, it's a night and day difference.