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.
its enough for watching 480p content and surfing internet
IDK, 400kbit/s is pretty close to unusable these days…
You don’t need HD video on your rectangle.
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.
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.
The home page of one of the largest banks by asset size https://www.shinhan.com/index.jsp would transfer 3.80MB up and 7.93MB down in a span of just under 4 minutes to fully load lol
That’s crazy. But I assume most people would use an app, which usually has a low amount of traffic.
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.
I lived for years limited to similar speeds, you are hilariously wrong.
That’s 240p YouTube, most of the time. Sometimes it won’t load 240. Most downloads through a browser will fail outright. You can download something, have that download saturate your entire internet and knock you offline. Anything autoplaying is aids. If someone messages you a link with a thumbnail you’ve just been DoSd, not DDoS because it only takes one person to kick you offline.
If you’re out of data, don’t stream video.
If you’re out of data, don’t download big files.
If you’re out of data, don’t use websites with a lot of data (such as autoplaying videos), without a plugin or something to minimize it.
If your chat can break your entire 400 k connection just by sending you a link, you should probably look at using some other software. Although of course that’s hard, if your friend aren’t willing to follow.
That was my only data, not limited because I ran out. I’m saying how trash the speed is and how little it can do.
Thumbnails. They can’t always be turned off and depending on what it is it can break everything for a good 30 seconds. Both steam and discord can do this.
The internet in the modern world is just not made to support internet that slow. The reason I even used Reddit and use Lemmy now is other sites took ages to load in the first place, simpler works. Shit I still use bing out of habit because for a very long time it used less bandwidth to load than google, and it was good enough.
edit: for things that actually matter i guess, work app had significant issues and the training videos i bypassed because the 480p wouldnt load.
That was my only data, not limited because I ran out. I’m saying how trash the speed is and how little it can do.
That changes the “good enough” part a lot.
I know it’s trash. But it works. That’s great, if you’ve run out of data and really need to pay a bill. (Possibly internet bill.) It takes patience, but it’s possible.
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.
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.
I do have similar thing with my plan after consuming all plan data but the speed is 512k. It’s good for text messages, using banking apps, browsing lemmy (world news and subs focuses on text).
It’s not blazing fast nor slow to hell. 2-10 seconds to perform an action which is acceptable imo.
400kbit/s is still kinda shitty
Might be low, but it’s still access to the internet. Seems like a great move.
That much? Wow how generous of the corporate overlords.
They should do this everywhere, but the speed should be a bit higher. Like if you’re on a cheap unlimited plan and you get deprioritized, it shouldn’t go lower than 5Mbit. The whales paying for priority can still get 50+Mbit or whatever, but they shouldn’t be given 100+ or 200+ so everyone else gets unusable speeds. Adjust the numbers to make it make more sense.
This is not for unlimited plans
This is how most of the telcos work in NZ. They sell unlimited plans with 10gb or whatever of high speed data. It drops to 2mbs when you run out that month
