They will no will no longer throttle mobile internet to unusable speeds after data allowances are exhausted, so it is kind of a “minimum universal connection” via mobile.
IDK, 400kbit/s is pretty close to unusable these days…
It’s enough for email, chats, banking and other essentials.
I would say it’s not enough to stream a movie, which seems fair to me if you spent all the data you have for the period.
400kbps would be slow as hell, for all of those use cases. Video would be unusable, but other stuff would still be insanely slow with all the bloat in modern websites and tracking crap in apps.
400kbps would be slow as hell, for all of those use cases.
I did those things just fine on my first internet connection, which was 14.4k.
When I upgraded to 54k, it was blazingly fast.
Remember we are not talking about modern comfort, we are talking a connection that is out of data. It’s okay to be annoyed.
Use an ad-blocker and suddenly it is an ok speed.
It would be horridly slow for all those things (well maybe not text-only chats)
Worked fine for me, when my connection was slower that that.
400kbit/s is surprisingly usable. I’m able to use my podcast app at 1.25x on 256kbit/s so with near double that i’m sure I could use it on my standard 1.6x that I like to use.
If streaming in 256kbit/s only required 256kbit/s actual connection, your math is correct…in reality it will need higher bandwidth to stream seamlessly at that bitrate.
These are audio podcasts, not video, and it did work. Mind you, I couldn’t have anything else going at the same time, but it did actually work.
Yeah, how is the website supposed to load a >GB of bloat and ads quickly?
400kbit/s excruciatingly slow for even basic things besides web browsingon bloated sites.
You don’t need HD video on your rectangle.
Might be low, but it’s still access to the internet. Seems like a great move.
its enough for watching 480p content and surfing internet
