Nice foot gun story. If you had a T1 at the time, you would never had noticed such a pitfall.
That’s the average worst case user.
This also means I notice massively if an app has hardcoded timeouts, or loads massive amounts of data.
That added an extra dimension to the confusion because I was sure this never happened when I was on campus, only when I was sitting 300 miles away. It was still happening if I had bothered to look at the network stats, just not enough to entirely saturate the connection.