This is one of the questions I started asking myself after coming back home...
At university, internet is amazing if you have an ethernet connection. Well, not the most amazing one if you compare to what you can get in first world countries, but it is still pretty fast and sufficient for almost every use case. I even did a 1080p/30fps livestream a few days before I start my journey back home and nothing choked. Updates get downloaded within seconds, videos start playing without buffering, posts load faster than I blink. It's easy to get used to comfort as usual, I almost forgot that loading is a thing. When you can directly load ZIP files without downloading them first, do you even consider slowness?
But at my home...it's quite the complete opposite. Right now I'm typing this as I'm waiting for my software updates to be downloaded. Something that normally takes 20 seconds now needs approximately half an hour plus a little more. It's also quite unstable and connection might be dropped by another connection unexpectedly. If someone else is watching YouTube when you're in a game, you're screwed. Music streaming is also challenging as it is really hard to stream in high quality in conditions like these. To make it slightly worse, mobile data is more unstable than the internet in my home. So, that kinda leaves me with slow and unstable internet for my entire holiday...sort of.
Which, led to this question of mine...do I do more with a faster internet, or with lesser?
It might feel a little bit counter-intuitive if I say that I feel that I'm a little bit more productive when internet is slower, but it does feel like that at times. Even I'm a little surprised when I look back at yesterday and today, but it does seem that slow internet helps me to do a little bit more of what I should be doing.
The reason? After some thinking and reflecting I think it has to do with how the slowness restricts me from diverting attentions.
Same as the procrastination logic, the brain is more attracted to do something that seems to be more attractive for the current time, and the strange big blob of flesh and water seems to prefer fresh and newly-popped up ideas...(at least mine works like that...) so that contributes to procrastination and other side effects from doing something totally unrelated when you just have the ease to do so. I can't count the times I went to Google on something about Minecraft when I am studying Physics because it is just something that seems to be more attractive to me and there is nothing stopping me from doing so!
But it's kinda a totally different story at home. Whenever I sit down to write something, it's very hard for the idea of randomly searching something unrelated to pull me away from the text editor. Reason? Because I don't want to wait for the page to load! It is some weird psychology there, but the pain of waiting for something to load is big enough for me to kill the idea of procrastinating my writing.
...and that is why you are reading this now. Thank my slow internet, if anything.
It's quite mindblowing when I kinda realize that it's a better thing that caused a worse situation for me. Maybe I should stop hoping for better internet speed at home, heh. I can use my mobile data when required anyways, it's unstable but it still works if you place it at some right spots at the home. You know, just below the window, tilted at some angle so that we get stable 4G signal until someone bumps that table by accide - ah, here we go again...
Or maybe I should find a way to convince myself to stop lurking around doing stuff I shouldn't be doing, because until now I don't think that someone is sane enough to develop a system to restrict internet speed so I'll still be screwed when I'm back at school. :3
Let's end this post here and see you around :)
--Lilacse
