I’ve long known that Troublesome Mobile restricts your Internet speed after you reach their “cap”, which depends on the plan you’re on. I never reach my cap, but I have now because I am moving and I am changing my ISP at the same time, and my new modem hasn’t arrived yet. So it’s 08:40 on a Sunday morning here on the west coast of Canada, and I’ve been waiting for two email messages to download for the last hour. Actually, every minute I spend writing this makes it that much longer.
I don’t know that my download speed is exactly 300 bps — it could be far less, for all I know, because it certainly seems lower — but that was the slowest speed I could imagine back in the days of dial-up Internet access, which to me sounds like broadband speed right now.
Oh, look, my connection just dropped. Fuuuuck.
I know both emails are HTML, because one is “marketing” and the other is from a Gmail user, and I know that even when you don’t “markup” your message with any kind of anything, messages from Gmail are never in plain-text. I know this because they downloaded overnight on my phone, so I know who they are from. One is a business email and the other personal, but neither really demands my attention at this moment, thankfully. I’ve tried three times (so far) to download a search page that compares Internet speeds in South Korea with Canada, but each time DuckDuckGo has given up and failed to load. Four times now. I give up. Where is the promise of 5G?! Oh right, that’s “marketing”, aka “bullshit”.
So I wait.
For those of you that wonder how I posted this, have you ever posted on an un-styled Word-press page, because Word-press decided it didn’t have the patience to wait for the necessary style sheets to download? That’s how I have posted this.
Update, 2025-12-21 15:12: Reworded sentence about 300 bps.