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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by monkpit on Thursday March 23, 2017 @01:30PM (#13941943)
So you just assume that changing between 50 meg and 300 meg service actually should give you a 6x speed up during browsing? I think that's a very flawed assumption to make. Just because your connection is capable of a certain advertised speed doesn't mean you're getting that speed from any given server as you browse the Internet.
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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by rayiner on Thursday March 23, 2017 @04:08PM (#13943747)
No, I'm assuming that because it didn't give me a noticeable speedup that bandwidth isn't the bottleneck. Also, the bottleneck isn't my connection out to the internet because I can get more than the advertised speed any time of day to speedtest.net servers. I suppose the bottleneck could be on the other end, but aren't these sites all hosted on major platforms these days? Like AWS/Google/etc.?
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