3G twelve years ago was fast. Today if you get a full 3G reception you can barely load Google’s landing page. Why’s that?

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I just feel like they renamed 4G into 5G, 3G into 4G and Edge into 3G.
Jokes aside, I know the overall amount of data to load today per website/video/images is way heavier than before, but still. A simple Google search doesn’t require much more to load than 12 years ago.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

There are few things some of the commentators missed.
1. Back then there weren’t as many devices connecting to internet services simultaneously. Bottlenecking is very frequent issue at certain hours of the day.
2. Sites were simpler and smaller. Now sites are much more complex, have more content and use a lot more data, more ads loading in the background …
3. Even the device you are using may contribute to the slow rendering of sites.

When multiple problems meet at once slowdowns become annoying really fast. It’s the price of everyone having a computer in their palm 24/7

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