No, in some areas it is still very much real. I've had several friends who needed to dip around 17:00 or 18:00 because the latency of the online games we played got too variable. This is in Western countries.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Some areas may even rely on LTE.

1-3Mbps vs 30-50Mbps is quite a bit of difference.

It also depends on how oversold the links are. I could easily take guaranteed gigabit and sell it to 2 homes as "Up to 1Gbps". Or 5 homes. How many people would be using the full bandwidth 24/7 anyway. But it can also be far less reasonable. I can sell it as "Up to x" to as many as I want to. Sure, you may only be getting less than 100Mbps now, but if others stopped using the internet... It's still validly "Up to 1Gbps". Maybe you'll get it, one day, or night.

If you don't have an SLA, you'll just have to deal with it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It’s a big problem in apartment complexes where one line is CGNAT’d to every apartment. In practice that means 20 people share the same line that a house would have normally, and in the evenings every apartment streaming or gaming can make the speeds shit.

Sucks ass but in the US you can’t do shit because the speeds you pay for are “up to” and if they’re not “up to” that the best you can do is kick rocks.

This also usually coincides with you being able to only get one internet service provider at that apartment, despite that being illegal now. So you’re locked in to shit nighttime service with slow downloads and giga latency

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

you being able to only get one internet service provider at that apartment, despite that being illegal now

Your option is the Mediocre Internet everyone uses or the Shit Internet that exists pretty much exclusively to fulfill this requirement. Fuck Windstream, somehow managed to be worse than Comcast.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Oooof too true on LTE internet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have FTTB and I'm glad I haven't experienced that. Always the 200Mbps that was advertised

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Glorious that you’re not over subscribed, that’s how it’s supposed to work!! But if they over sell the pipe or undersize the pipe, or both, Fs in the chat between 7-10

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The internet is weird. You'd be surprised at some of the issues that still happen today.

I once had an issue where I couldn't log into the servers of an MMO, despite my internet being perfectly fine. After much trial and error, I figured out that the reason I couldn't log in was because while I played on East Coast servers, all login authentification was done through servers at the companies HQ on the West Coast, and there was a local outage of a DNS server or something out in New York somewhere, which meant that I couldn't reach the login servers. Literally nothing I could do because a line was down several states away and I therefore couldn't play the game.