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Re: [LUG] has the internet got really slow

 

Holygrail you're right! I forgot it was kbps. My friends back then said i had a great connection. 4.9kbps.
Another mate had dual isdn, i remember being blown away by the speed!
back then we played with sgi kit and had LOTS of money for splashing out on tech.
I had a amd 2600mhz and i was convinced then that was too fast!

ha but what do i know, even when i remember something i get the facts wrong. Truely burnt out!

sorry for misreading and recalling badly. I guess that is the price i have to pay. ;)

On Mar 4, 2014 6:32 PM, "Simon Avery" <digdilem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 4 March 2014 15:42, Daniel Robinson <manipula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have been using computers and the net for almost 20 years and even when i lived in the sticks i had a faster connection than that on dial up.

No you didn't. Fastest supported modem was v.92Â which was 56.0/48.0 kbit. (Asynchronous variation of 28.8kbit sync and wasn't introduced until 2000)

Home highway (ISDN - can be classed as dialup) was 64k or if you paid for two calls and bound the channels, 128kbit synchronous or 0.128 mbit.

Right now, here at home I have 2.2 / 0.5Â - at out various work sites we have speeds of 1.1/0.5, 2.2/0.6 and 2.5/0.5 down/up mbits.
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>Â I hope you dont pay for that (service).

Until fttc hits your area, there's no cost effective alternative. Cable in rural? Hah. Satellite? Only if you want to pay a lot and endure ridiculous pings.

3/4g can work if you've got coverage (not easy when you're rural), but sometimes hard to find a bundle with realistic bandwidth for equivalent money.

How can you live with that lack of speed? Is it enough for your usage?

Wasn't for me, so I have two adsl connections at home. Each around 2-2.5mbit and load balanced on a draytek 2820 with static outbound routes for some specific uses. This costs around Â45/mo.

And it's still much cheaper than dialup. And when you view how BT dangle their overheads through trees and hedges and how much it moves in a storm, well, you have to be grateful that you get anything.

(Someone who has run modems since the mid 80s, hosted a BBS and shifted international fidonet mail <> the UK for many years. I still have my courier i-modem gathering dust nearby.)

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