What kind of shitty-ass dorm relies on cellular connections? When I was in college, we had wired ethernet in the dorms and then wifi on top of that. Piracy was huge, in part because it was a lot of folks’ first opportunity to have a fast connection, LOL.
(Admittedly, that was at a research university that had been sitting directly on internet backbone since the NSFNET days, but still…!)
Download a little offline Wiki for rainy days folks!
I take connectivity for granted but shouldn’t. Batteries charged, books on the shelf, offline games and media stored locally…
> Live on a dorm
> There’s lots of people
> Cell towers are motherfuckingly overloaded during the day
> 0.09Mbps down, 4.5Mbps up and > 300ms on 4G
What kind of shitty-ass dorm relies on cellular connections? When I was in college, we had wired ethernet in the dorms and then wifi on top of that. Piracy was huge, in part because it was a lot of folks’ first opportunity to have a fast connection, LOL.
(Admittedly, that was at a research university that had been sitting directly on internet backbone since the NSFNET days, but still…!)