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  • Modem speeds (was: Re: Old PC's)

    From JOE MACKEY@1:135/392 to GEORGE POPE on Wed Jan 12 06:03:06 2022
    CP wrote --

    The standard was 28.8K when I did that with 56.6K really making inroads.

    My first one was a 300 which was fine with me since all text and I could
    only read so fast.
    Then being able to download/upload message boards and went to a 1200 and thought it couldn't get any faster. Then a 28, then a 56 and broadband in
    '01.
    It would take a long time to download with a 56 and now if it takes more
    than a few minutes to d/l a two hour movie its "come on, hurry up, what's taking you so long?" :)
    Joe
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  • From George Pope@1:153/757 to Joe Mackey on Wed Jan 12 17:29:30 2022
    It would take a long time to download with a 56 and now if it takes more
    than a few minutes to d/l a two hour movie its "come on, hurry up, what's taking you so long?"

    IKR? Jeeze Louise!

    My bro, in Seoul, with a built-in T1 in his apartment, expected each 2 hour movie to take about a second or two to drop to one of his disks

    He collected hundreds in just his first weekend there!

    He could walk to the corner & buy 100 DVDs of anything, including Windows or any utility, for 8c USD (1 wan per disk/movie)

    I think he mostly just wanted to brag to me about numbers he downloaded & burned personally. . .

    I would've, if I needed that much, just gone to the corner & spent a buck on pre-recorded stuff, & kept that DL+burn time for other things.. .

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