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.

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    4 months ago

    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.

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      4 months ago

      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.

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        4 months ago

        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.