Aaron Parecki

@aaronpk Did you know that even though Windows 10 still supports dial-up, it doesn't really work.

The forced basic Telemetry, update checks, internet connectivity pings, etc. alone use up the 56k of bandwidth, so browsing the internet mostly just flat out doesn't work, regardless of patience. If you're lucky, you can get some text content popping up after a minute or two, but even if you wait 15 minutes, most sites are likely to never load a single image unless they're small sub 64x64 pixel icons. 90% of your http requests are simply going to time out or die for other reasons.

I've run these systems.

Was the Gmail basic view any better? https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049?hl=en

They may be simultaneous connections but you make it sound like a server farm. They are "periodic" demands for upload or download. Maybe 30% of 300 seats are connected, for 90 connections. 10% hit the return key at the same moment, for 9 hits to the uplink at any instance.

I hear you, but I wonder if you don't have it backwards. 2020 is the year and airlines WiFi is like 1995 dialup? Something is wrong and I think it may be in the sky.

That’s a shame, I once had Gmail be the only way I could access a file to print on a really old computer because of its legacy support.

I love when you're investigating a bug and the question "why is this broken!?" turns into "why did this ever work?!?"

I wanted to take some notes on the airplane so I pulled up Notion but it wouldn’t load because of lack of internet. This stuff kills me, it’s not acceptable