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Engineering for Slow Internet

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Hello everyone! I got partway through writing this post while I was still in Antarctica, but I departed before finishing it. I’m going through my old draft posts, and I found that this one was nearly complete. It’s a bit of a departure from the normal content you’d find on brr.fyi, but it reflects my software / IT engineering background. I hope folks find this to be an interesting glimpse into the on-the-ground reality of using the Internet in bandwidth-constrained environments. Please keep in mind that I wrote the majority of this post ~7 months ago, so it’s likely that the IT landscape has shifted since then. Welcome back for a ~~bonus post~~ about Engineering for Slow Internet! For a 14-month period, while working in Antarctica, I had access to the Internet only through an extremely limited series of satellite links provided by the United States Antarctic Program. Before I go further, this post requires a special caveat, above and beyond my standard disclaimer: Even though I was an

Hello everyone! I got partway through writing this post while I was still in Antarctica, but I departed before finishing it. I’m going through my old draft posts, and I found that this one was nearly complete. It’s a bit of a departure from the normal content you’d find on brr.fyi, but it reflects my software / IT engineering background. I hope folks find this to be an interesting glimpse into the on-the-ground reality of using the Internet in bandwidth-constrained environments. Please keep in mind that I wrote the majority of this post ~7 months ago, so it’s likely that the IT landscape has s

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