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by jeduardo 564 days ago
Second that. The state of internet in Germany is what always gets me thinking about how things will work when speed is slow, connections are spotty or you get offline. So many problems with Spotify in particular, as even when it detects that it is offline, it still insists to try fetching assets related to content that was already downloaded.
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Aeolun 564 days ago
It was really weird going back to Europe and have my phone on 3g half the time. I just never see that in Japan. It’s either 4/5g or nothing at all.
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Moru 564 days ago
It's very different on location in Europe. Where I live I have realized we are a bit spoiled. I was biking through the (small) forest outside Bonn in Germany. This used to be the capital during the east germany thing. It was impossible to access internet for the GPS game I'm playing (turfgame.com) so I had to turn off GPS and get back to the road to be able to take the zones. This keeps happening the whole time even driving around on smaller roads.

South sweden this almost never happens, here in north Sweden in can happen that you drop down to 2G and can only do SMS but then you really have to go deep into the forests. Up in the mountains you will lose connection completely though. Especially now when they shut down the older networks that has longer reach.

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Aeolun 564 days ago
I mean, in a valley between several hundred meter tall mountains I’d expect my signal to drop, but I often have to go pretty far.

The 4g drops I’m talking about are on the train network between two major cities.

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Moru 563 days ago
4g has a really low range, this is why we want to keep the old system. We can't put up enough 5g masts in the forest...
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viciousvoxel 564 days ago
As sibling post said, it just really depends on the location in Europe. Here in Turin (NW Italy), everything is 4G-LTE/5G and they're phasing out 3G completely.
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bigfatkitten 563 days ago
Same for me, even when visiting extremely rural places in Australia (before the 3G shutdown).

That includes the sort of places where medical help comes on a plane[0] because it's too far from anywhere for a helicopter.

[0] https://www.flyingdoctor.org.au/

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