Ask HN: Living with seriously limited Internet?

Re:Ask HN: Living with seriously limited Internet? by DoreenMichele on Sunday January 21, 2018 @05:39PM (#16200489)

It will depend in part on what they are doing. I had limited internet when I was homeless and had to cope with doing stuff on a tablet in the evening with battery power and no internet.

Find games that can be played offline.

Use a URL to PDF converter for things you want to read.

Favor lightweight websites and lightweight apps.

Get a video downloader and download videos you like watching repeatedly, like music videos.

Clear your cache regularly and delete stuff you aren't really using.

Try several different browsers to compare performance. After finding one that works well, uninstall all others that can be uninstalled. Some mobile browsers have an optimization option that will help.

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Re:Ask HN: Living with seriously limited Internet? by O_H_E on Monday January 22, 2018 @01:57PM (#16206884)

I do think that clearing cache is a very bad advice for a limited internet situation, as cache is data loaded once and being saved for "possible" later use if you loaded the same page again

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Re:Ask HN: Living with seriously limited Internet? by sicelo on Monday January 22, 2018 @12:00PM (#16205888)

how does clearing cache regularly help?

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Re:Ask HN: Living with seriously limited Internet? by DoreenMichele on Monday January 22, 2018 @12:50PM (#16206309)

It is not unusual for a device to be laggy because of storage issues. This can compound any problems from download speeds.

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