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I heard of a similar idea in an Acquired episode: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/special-acquired-x-my-first... Wondering if this is somehow related, or you came up with the same idea independently
This is actually what I was listening to on Friday morning that prompted me to build this.
I like this idea, but I see two potential problems: 1. It might route too many people to where the network is fast, thus making the network not fast anymore and wasting a lot of people's time as they "go." 2. It might also route a bunch of "digital nomads" to my local art café where they will hog the tables, like Waze did with commuter traffic to my residential street. How do you avoid those two problems? Or at least…
W.r.t 2nd, Yep!
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Make your internet slow at #2. Presumably you don't want an army of people all on the Internet at your art cafe anyway. As for #1, there are physical capacity limits you are likely to first exhaust. Only so many people will fit.
Actually two of my cafés have a "no computers in the evening" rule, one also has a "no computers on the terrace" rule. Now that I think about it more, with fast mobile data I don't think network speed is going to be much of a factor for places like that. For #1, if you have ten people all on Zoom meetings at the same time, isn't that going to kill your fast-for-a-café bandwidth?
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Make your internet slow at #2. Presumably you don't want an army of people all on the Internet at your art cafe anyway. As for #1, there are physical capacity limits you are likely to first exhaust. Only so many people will fit.
Actually two of my cafés have a "no computers in the evening" rule, one also has a "no computers on the terrace" rule. Now that I think about it more, with fast mobile data I don't think network speed is going to be much of a factor for places like that. For #1, if you have ten people all on Zoom meetings at the same time, isn't that going to kill your fast-for-a-café bandwidth?
Not unless they all start at the same time. If they start a little staggered from each other, there will be time to boot the first person out for trying to do a video call in a cafe around other humans before the next one starts.
Working in a cafe is completely reasonable, and wouldn't disturb other people. Taking a call is ridiculous.
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Make your internet slow at #2. Presumably you don't want an army of people all on the Internet at your art cafe anyway. As for #1, there are physical capacity limits you are likely to first exhaust. Only so many people will fit.
Actually two of my cafés have a "no computers in the evening" rule, one also has a "no computers on the terrace" rule. Now that I think about it more, with fast mobile data I don't think network speed is going to be much of a factor for places like that. For #1, if you have ten people all on Zoom meetings at the same time, isn't that going to kill your fast-for-a-café bandwidth?
That's a snazzy looking app, but why iOS only, and why iOS 14 only?
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Actually two of my cafés have a "no computers in the evening" rule, one also has a "no computers on the terrace" rule. Now that I think about it more, with fast mobile data I don't think network speed is going to be much of a factor for places like that. For #1, if you have ten people all on Zoom meetings at the same time, isn't that going to kill your fast-for-a-café bandwidth?
Even on sub-par infrastructure, a business-class connection should never be slower than 100/100mbps, and 10 people on zoom wouldn't be a problem. So the question becomes whether the infrastructure is garbage.
I like this idea, but I see two potential problems: 1. It might route too many people to where the network is fast, thus making the network not fast anymore and wasting a lot of people's time as they "go." 2. It might also route a bunch of "digital nomads" to my local art café where they will hog the tables, like Waze did with commuter traffic to my residential street. How do you avoid those two problems? Or at least…
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Even on sub-par infrastructure, a business-class connection should never be slower than 100/100mbps, and 10 people on zoom wouldn't be a problem. So the question becomes whether the infrastructure is garbage.
This depends heavily on type of connection. 100/100 should be bare minimum, yes, but for example Comcast coaxial business-class is still like 5-10mbit up.
They need to replace some filters and other pieces so that more frequencies can be allocated to upload.
See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lag