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Low bandwidth is but one component, the other two are delay and packet loss.

I spent the holidays at my parents's, they're hooked to 1024kbps ADSL[0], so theoretical 128kB/s. Effectively it hovers between 80k and 120k which is fine…-ish: the connection will regularly jump to ~7% packet loss and 2000±1000ms ping. Downloading at 80k is one thing, downloading at 80k with 3s round-trip and 1 packet in 15 missing things get much trickier, especially when most pages have a really high number of resources.

[0] and nothing better is currently available short of cellular (they do get ok 4G, at least when the weather doesn't screw with it), though they're supposed to get fibre a year or two down the line