So y'all just really out here with good internet?

[Alienslayer2406]

Every time I have a problem with a program or a game, Google always says "Oh, a quick reinstall will surely fix it!" That would be fine...if I didn't live in rural America where a simple 1GB download takes all night. I'm not even joking. It took me more than a week to install Doom (2016). My brother bought COD: Modern Warfare and it was literally ninety gigs. He had to take it back.

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

I live in the boonies and I had gig net before my upgrade. I won't share that speed or I might be hunted and scalped.

You just need to check landline options. Satalite sucks.

[Fake]

I pay $110/month for 35MB/s download and 1MB/s upload.

The ISP has a monopoly here.

[AustrAlien2010]

Good enough internet should be free for everyone, in my opinion. But that's not possible yet, it seems.

[Lunacy]

I remember my old internet. Was like $70cad /mo for like 6 Mbps (0.75 MB/s) at most with maybe 0.33 upload. And that was on a good day, it would often be around 1-2 Mbps. If a game was dozens of GB I would have to download it over multiple nights (gta5 took about a week to download) just so it wouldn't throttle the rest of the internet during the day.

Now I'm paying roughly the same for 300 Mbps and nobody is complaining about the lag when I'm hosting something and have zero issues streaming on Discord. Those same huge games I can download in 20 minutes and every youtube video is 1080p at minimum.

One day the old internet got so bad that I tried to load a video about how slow dial-up internet is and it took 20 minutes to finish a 2 minute video on 144p

[刘鹏辉 15947033800]

i remember phone line, i wanted to plug it in to browse some shady site, never did that, it was all in my mind, haunting. it was when i was in high school.

[Alienslayer2406]

UnityAngel 🈲님이 먼저 게시:

i have 10kb/s

It took you an hour to upload this, didn't it?

[Alienslayer2406]

Lunacy님이 먼저 게시:

I remember my old internet. Was like $70cad /mo for like 6 Mbps (0.75 MB/s) at most with maybe 0.33 upload. And that was on a good day, it would often be around 1-2 Mbps. If a game was dozens of GB I would have to download it over multiple nights (gta5 took about a week to download) just so it wouldn't throttle the rest of the internet during the day.

Now I'm paying roughly the same for 300 Mbps and nobody is complaining about the lag when I'm hosting something and have zero issues streaming on Discord. Those same huge games I can download in 20 minutes and every youtube video is 1080p at minimum.

One day the old internet got so bad that I tried to load a video about how slow dial-up internet is and it took 20 minutes to finish a 2 minute video on 144p

Wh-
Where do you live?!?!

I feel you with that dial-up speed. We had a different ISP when I was younger and I'm pretty sure I could have gotten better speeds with two soup cans and a string.

[↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect]

I pay 45.99 for 1 gig service. When doing a speed test it always comes back as 1.5 gig.

[Haruspex]

Alienslayer2406님이 먼저 게시:

Every time I have a problem with a program or a game, Google always says "Oh, a quick reinstall will surely fix it!" That would be fine...if I didn't live in rural America where a simple 1GB download takes all night. I'm not even joking. It took me more than a week to install Doom (2016). My brother bought COD: Modern Warfare and it was literally ninety gigs. He had to take it back.

I live in the middle of nowhere, in one of the most remote counties in the US. Just getting to a simple Walmart is a 1 1/2 hour drive in any direction.

My Internet is halfway decent. 30 MB. Ping time is acceptable, but not terrific.

I have what they call a WISP, which is a network of little line-of-sight microwave dishes. The alternative is geostationary satellite (blegh), or most recently Starlink low earth orbit satellite.

See if there is WISP service offered where you live, or maybe look into Starlink.

[Alienslayer2406]

8bitbeard님이 먼저 게시:

Alienslayer2406님이 먼저 게시:

Every time I have a problem with a program or a game, Google always says "Oh, a quick reinstall will surely fix it!" That would be fine...if I didn't live in rural America where a simple 1GB download takes all night. I'm not even joking. It took me more than a week to install Doom (2016). My brother bought COD: Modern Warfare and it was literally ninety gigs. He had to take it back.

I live in the middle of nowhere, in one of the most remote counties in the US. Just getting to a simple Walmart is a 1 1/2 hour drive in any direction.

My Internet is halfway decent. 30 MB. Ping time is acceptable, but not terrific.

I have what they call a WISP, which is a network of little line-of-sight microwave dishes. The alternative is geostationary satellite (blegh), or most recently Starlink low earth orbit satellite.

See if there is WISP service offered where you live, or maybe look into Starlink.

I'll look into it, thanks.