• uis@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Even the slowest 3G connections can download that much in half a second.

    Even 3G is not always avaliable, even 3G sometimes slower than 2G.

    32 KB here, 32 KB there and boom - you have bitbucket.

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      7 months ago

      At least in the US, the reason 3G isn’t available is that it has been phased out, as has 2G. You may as well complain about how slow it is to send data with smoke signals, because 4G is table stakes for an internet-capable device now.

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        7 months ago

        Where I live even 4G isn’t all that reliable. Making a phone call is mostly impossible and a text message is hit or miss unless I’m in a town or along a major road, This is due to terrain and the general lack of towers. 4G is spotty at best and with many areas having no service at all. And I ain’t never going to live long enough to ever see 5G out here.

        But, I would agree that while 32KB is pretty minor for an internet connection, things have a way of stacking. 32KB here, another extra 32KB there and pretty soon things can get ‘heavy’ to use.

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        7 months ago

        US? US is wild place. A lot of people still on ADSL, but 2G and 3G equipment is thrown away and say “lol, you problem, buy new phone”. I won’t be surprised that there are a lot of places where internet is less stable than in a train going through tunnel under the mountain in the middle of Siberia. Which means no internet.

        I wonder what happens to internet connection in rural areas of USSA, since you suddenly started talking about it.

        In Europe(or at least in my part of Europe) there are places where mobile internet is overloaded like subway system and city center and places where mobile internet is very unstable like my house in suburban area and, agan, trains.

        And, as I mentioned, bitbucket. It struggles to load even on average PC.