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Re:Ask HN: Is 10mbps good enough in today's world? by bartread on Saturday March 10, 2018 @04:02PM (#16560142)
Yes, it's enough. Poor performance will come from things like poorly constructed websites (too much JS, very chatty sites and apps loading resources across many domains, or calling home a lot, especially with limited upstream bandwidth), contention with other users of the connection, and latency (not often a big issue with wired connections). On latency, this piece from 1996 is still worth a read: http://www.stuartcheshire.org/rants/latency.html.
Re:Ask HN: Is 10mbps good enough in today's world? by tintar on Sunday March 11, 2018 @09:42AM (#16562944)
hilarious, it was literally only a couple days ago I was digging into seeing what the current state of Bolo was. I miss Bolo so much, I want it on my xbox or on Steam or anything. if Target can sell a single-purpose Oregon Trail handheld, why can't we have Bolo?

and that's a great article, I remember it quite well. at the time it was written, I was working for Lotus/IBM in Cambridge (no not that one, the other one) and the company had offered us all experimental free ISDN so, yes, please - and, yeah, speed good latency bad. go fig.

Re:Ask HN: Is 10mbps good enough in today's world? by rammy1234 on Saturday March 10, 2018 @05:17PM (#16560447)
thats still relevant. Every developer should take low bandwidth in mind.