“Stuck with 120Mbps down” made me spit out my drink
My apartment contract forces me to pay $99/mo. for roughly 120mbit, while most residences on my block can get 1gbit symmetric from Google Fiber for $70/mo.
It's also quite slow, depending on what you compare it to.
The nanobots I can live with
Over that same span of time, I've seen my local storage throughout go from ~100mb/sec to ~6000mb/sec.
The improvement of internet bandwidth for the average person is moving at a glacial pace. I'm happy to live near the middle of that spectrum; and I'm frustrated to be so close, yet so far away, from the bleeding edge.
I'm stuck with 100, which is actually closer to 80 most of the time.
I could have 250 if I wanted to more than double my monthly bill, but paying 200$ a month for internet isn't my Jam.
I grew up with dialup and my brain simply automatically makes me do several things in parallel so some can finish loading while I'm working on others. If things load too quickly it throws me off, quite honestly. A large download is for tomorrow, or after dinner at the very least.
On the flipside, I do expect local desktop apps to open instantly, and when Discord or Teams takes 25 seconds to start up and render an interface, I'm profoundly annoyed.
Why, yes, I am cranky all the time, thanks for asking.