So I'm on one of those "unlimited" data plans, where when you use up your alotted however many GB, instead of getting cut off and having to either go without, or purchase more data at an exorbitant rate, it slows down to a degree (512 kbps) that you either have to *effectively* go without, or purchase more data at an exorbitant rate.
Trying to function this way is... educational, from a web developer's perspective...
I bought a 2-year "unlimited" data plan about five years ago to use at my apartment (because absolutely blast the evil cable companies, I will not give them a red cent), and it was 2GB/mo after which it drops to 128kbps.
I figured, hey, that's as fast as ISDN, I can live with that! I won't use it for youtube, just really basic stuff!
Man, it was unusable. Every single thing I tried just failed ungracefully.
They not only throttle the connection, what they also do, is run a priority daemon which de_prioitizes all your requests
Even at a megabit, that would be unusable
@RadioAzureus @RL_Dane @gordoooo_z
Seems so! I have an old SIM-card that doesn't have monthly payments, I can pay for "fast" data per gig, otherwise it's limited to 128 kbps. It's unusable — sometimes even DNS queries seem to fail, loading a Wikipedia page takes ~10 retries.
I've been experimenting with Gemini on it lately — they seem to be unaware (or don't care) how to throttle such traffic so it works well. I have an old ARM netbook with a built-in cellular modem — would be perfect for it.
@m0xee @RadioAzureus @RL_Dane @gordoooo_z don't tell me, I've been having to use 100kb/s this month it's been pain
@tht @m0xee @RadioAzureus @gordoooo_z
Yikes. I wonder if using commandline tools on a server somewhere and a bad-connection-tolerant remote shell like mosh would make it any more tolerable. Like mosh over to a webserver somewhere and do everything there via tmux.
@RL_Dane @m0xee @RadioAzureus @gordoooo_z CLI apps are usually enough, since they are far more fault-tolerant I just use termux on my phone for most of my needs, it's kinda usable this way
@RL_Dane @tht @m0xee @gordoooo_z
I have used SSH over horrifically bad POTS lines and everything went fine
@RL_Dane
Doesn't Browsh use Mosh? That would help...
@tht @m0xee @RadioAzureus @gordoooo_z
@dheadshot @tht @m0xee @RadioAzureus @gordoooo_z
That's a cool idea.
@m0xee @RadioAzureus @gordoooo_z
Gemini would be amazing on 128kbps. XD