Hotel wifi at 10.33 - dump tonight's 4K here or wait for Colombo

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Catia Caldeira189 rep2

Not a cafe table. Not a ten-minute shop plug. We are in the room. Phone is full of orange blobs from the 4th. Partner wants the hotel SSID to take four 4K clips before we sleep. Password works. Speed looks like 2014. Dump now on a Kumbal-night pipe, or leave it until a Colombo network and risk the phone dying as a brick.

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Festival-night guesthouse wifi is a shared pipe. I cannot swear this SSID's actual throughput. One small clip as a test. If it crawls, stop - you will kill the house for everyone still uploading. Colombo / a proper connection is the archive. Plug the phone in either way (the generator thread is closed; if the socket is live, use it).

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Harshani Madawala1210 rep1

Do not ask him to "reboot the router for YouTube" at 22:33. He already shushed a different couple. AirDrop to the laptop if you have one, then sleep.

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Duleeka Tennakoon1650 rep1

We killed the wifi for the floor. Host knocked. We stopped. Clips survived until Galle.

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