# Tell HN: Not everyone has internet as fast as yours > Source: > Published: 2026-07-17 19:06:57+00:00 | |||||||||||||||| 2 points by | I'm currently traveling and relying on free wifi hotspots and 3G cellular. It's shocking to me how many apps are completely unusable on slow internet. Back in the day, our test suites always included a "slow client internet" test to identify issues where there were too many round trips or unnecessarily large payloads. What happened to that? (ps. Props to OpenAI, Codex still works on slow internet. Claude won't even load its interface) | ||||||||||||||| Applications are open till July 27. |