Mother/sister in-law live in a tiny village, and have a thrilling 1Mbps, occasionally 1.5Mbps on a good day via some ancient thing at a fiver a month. Fibre finally went into the village a few months ago.
Me: I have 200Mbps via fibre, how do you manage with 1Mbps down a manky phone line?
Them: It would cost us £35 a month to swap to the 20Mbps the fibre is offering. Rather spend that on chocolate thanks.
Me: But how does everything work? Surely it's impossibly slow?
Them: We have one laptop. It works for a bit of web browsing, and some emails. We even run Zoom and it works ok.
Me: Working from home?
Them: That happens two days a week, works fine. It's only clicking some buttons on a remote web site and filling in some details anyway.
Me: Aren't you interested in iPlayer, or Netflix, etc?
Them: No.
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