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[MannDude]

Well, not really (duh). But I've been in the process of moving for a couple months now and found an internet service provider to service the new place. For a cool low price of $35/mo, I will be the recipient of 1Mbps down internet service via DSL.

Yes, it's a dream come true. That is if you were dreaming this in 1999.

So, unless I want capped satellite internet that is less reliable this is my only current option.

What can a Mann do to survive on 1Mbps? Any tips, tricks or advice to conserve data? I already use Ghostery and uBlock to remove elements that I don't want/need from loading, so that may help a bit. Any thing else I can do that is 'better' at data conservation? Would be using a Raspberry Pi for a 'PiHole' be better than blocking elements via a browser plugin?

In all reality I don't think it'll be too bad. My internet use is mainly browsing forums / reddit and very light social media. I cancelled Netflix months ago but I do still sometimes connect to Plex for media and of course I need YouTube to teach me how to do things I don't know how to do...

I'll live, right?

 

[Jonathan]

w00t! Less competition on Plex!

Hah, in all reality it's not that bad. Even if you game, you'll be fine so long as you have decent latency.

 

[AMDbuilder]

I suspect you will get better mileage out of the pihole, as it provides network-wide protection instead of supported devices. It's also blocking at the DNS level, so the resources aren't being downloaded in the first place. That being said I haven't used Ghostery or uBlock, so I can't comment on how they are blocking ads.

I'm using a pi zero (first gen) to run pihole, and the management interface does run nicely since the 3.0 update.