tkaraszewski wrote: ↑Wed Aug 18, 2021 12:42 am
It's 2021. The whole world has fast internet.
Absolutely not true. While most of EU (and, in general, most of '1st world') has it - either fiber or fast 4G in most areas, many places still do not. Been to Cape Verde (Sal, Santa Maria) this year, it was 5- 7Mbps during business hours, some ppl were getting (for short moments) 20-30 Mbps, but no way you could get it during business hours. And I lived like 7-8 mins walk from GSM antenna. There's almost no fiber there, at least not in flats for rent or other popular accommodations (I've heard some big hotels & institutions have it), and most flats have routers with sim card, so eventually they getting same speed as what mobile connection gives you.
!!!! 2022 update - statement above is wrong. I went to CV again in 2022, just this time to realize that, for whatever reason, when the telCo sells you SIM, it's limited to 3G only. You just need to switch it to 4G / LTE in your phone settings and it's flying, 20-40Mbps depending on your distance to physical antenna !!!
Funny, coz if I knew internet is this slow there, I wouldn't go (before I went, one person living there shared with me these 20-30Mbps screenshots I told you about before), but fortunately it was enough for my work. Some ppl were complaining though.
In general, internet speed is tech-related thing, so, particularly if there's no (or little) fiber and mobile connection is slow (or very busy or just transponder is far away from where you stay - 4G doesn't have that much range distance- wise, and btw 5G has even less, so in most places that don't have good internet now, introduction of 5G won't change much, unless many new antennas are placed in particular area), then, sorry, internet will suck. tkaraszewski must have been lucky to stay somewhere close to well performing (and / or not very busy) mobile antenna.
Btw. any of you who were in Kappalady / Kalpitiya area in Sri Lanka, can you tell me how is internet there? I particularly mean mobile one, as I prefer not to rely on hotel's WiFi. I'd like to go there one day.