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usertests The government PC recycling is nice, but 22k a year isn't a lot to work with. There's lots of good, cheap computers on used markets, but if things get really bad, with hotly anticipated wars, or memory demand increasing by 625x, then there will be great suffering even at the entry-level/flea end of the market. The data cap minimum speed is something all plans should have, so good on them. 400 Kbps is pretty low but it could be good enough for serious websites with forms you need to fill out. It doesn't seem particularly related to the DRAM/NAND crisis, but if you have less storage, you may be re-downloading the same content repeatedly and hitting a cap faster. Reply
Shiznizzle usertests said: The government PC recycling is nice, but 22k a year isn't a lot to work with. There's lots of good, cheap computers on used markets, but if things get really bad, with hotly anticipated wars, or memory demand increasing by 625x, then there will be great suffering even at the entry-level/flea end of the market. The data cap minimum speed is something all plans should have, so good on them. 400 Kbps is pretty low but it could be good enough for serious websites with forms you need to fill out. It doesn't seem particularly related to the DRAM/NAND crisis, but if you have less storage, you may be re-downloading the same content repeatedly and hitting a cap faster. 400kbps is plenty to do nearly everything, provided the latency is low. Were you born in the early 2000's? We made due with 28 bauds. People before me made due with less even. During the height of the Napster craze most people were on 56k modems. While 400k is not suitable for transferring 4k video, what percentage of the population even has a 4k screen and the hardware to drive it? Reply
usertests Shiznizzle said: 400kbps is plenty to do nearly everything, provided the latency is low. Were you born in the early 2000's? You may have noticed that the modern webpage has become extremely bloated, even if you aren't interacting with video. And God help you if you don't use an adblocker. Reply
shady28 usertests said: You may have noticed that the modern webpage has become extremely bloated, even if you aren't interacting with video. And God help you if you don't use an adblocker. Yeah. The internet was better before the WWW. Reply
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