It’s crazy to think how far we’ve gotten in 20 years
Bynairee
EarthLink 🌍
Cheesymaryjane
Tbf I think my home internet was about as good as yours in roughly 2009 or so
thechaosofreason
Overcoming the unfounded anxiety that something is wrong with it.
Sharp-Hotel-2117
I was a very early adopter of cable internet and it was fast when I was one of the few on my node. I can’t remember what year I managed to get that service. It was prior to 2004, because that’s when I moved out of the suburbs to a farm. I had ADSL at my office at the time, it sucked for upload and I dearly wanted cable for the better upload(sending clients Autocad files). I paid through the nose for a cable drop on the farm, totally worth it though.
Sold that business and now work for an international sized Corp and we have a synchronous connect of some nature, on days when the office crew isn’t clogging up the bandwidth it’s gigabit up and down. Even when all 300 people are at work the connect is 100+mbit, quicker to email myself photos/files than walk to my office and hook up a cable. My email if left alone for just one day will be in excess of 100 Mbyte in size for new messages.
JimLahey08
I’ve been to that exact page. We went from dial up and then Halo combat evolved came out and I learned you could play it online with xbconnect. I convinced my parents to get high speed internet that JUST became available in my small town and got 1.5 mbps down and 256 up and my life has never been the same since.
m270ras
8 megabytes per second? sounds great to me
TehWildMan_
Dang. I currently get 20mbps at my home today a lot has changed over the years.
imaginary_num6er
*I was there 30.00 years ago*
diabr0
Man, going from 56k to DSL was a game changer when I was growing up in the early 2000’s. Honestly don’t even remember what the speed was, it wasn’t as fast as all of my friends with cable internet at the time but it was enough to finally play games online while using ventrilo without lagging
SecreteMoistMucus
Lucky bastard, that’s literally 1000 times faster than I had 20 years ago. When the download dialog box showed 1 KB/s instead of some bytes/s it was a good day.
sooprcow
And the great Windows 98!
Academiopolis
I had 600kb/s download until 2018.
Deepspacecow12
That website DSLreports is still around today, and fairly active. You can get a direct line of support to higher tier support sometimes.
PirateGumby
That’s pretty close to the protocol limits of ADSL1 technology. Dude must have been living inside the phone exchange with a direct patch between the modem and the DSLAM.
tukatu0
I am confused. Some in this comment section are acting like this is ancient history. My speed is only about 3x better (3Mb down). On a supposed 300megabit plan. Which even if it’s only half in reality. Shouldn’t that be near 20Mb down?
What the fuck do i need to tell my isp to fix this shit. They even had a tech come out few months ago. “If the new router don’t work. Give a call”
Aware-Protection-697
212 kbps was insane at the time!!! Downloading Ragnarok Online or a few songs took a hot minute. Now it’s seconds to under a second.
pixtools
at least they were more genuine than today
Shoddy-Conference-43
hey thats my hotel internet speeds in 2024!
The_Dung_Beetle
Seems legit I think we has 512kbps ADSL and a 5GB or 10GB cap lol
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It’s crazy to think how far we’ve gotten in 20 years
EarthLink 🌍
Tbf I think my home internet was about as good as yours in roughly 2009 or so
Overcoming the unfounded anxiety that something is wrong with it.
I was a very early adopter of cable internet and it was fast when I was one of the few on my node. I can’t remember what year I managed to get that service. It was prior to 2004, because that’s when I moved out of the suburbs to a farm. I had ADSL at my office at the time, it sucked for upload and I dearly wanted cable for the better upload(sending clients Autocad files). I paid through the nose for a cable drop on the farm, totally worth it though.
Sold that business and now work for an international sized Corp and we have a synchronous connect of some nature, on days when the office crew isn’t clogging up the bandwidth it’s gigabit up and down. Even when all 300 people are at work the connect is 100+mbit, quicker to email myself photos/files than walk to my office and hook up a cable. My email if left alone for just one day will be in excess of 100 Mbyte in size for new messages.
I’ve been to that exact page. We went from dial up and then Halo combat evolved came out and I learned you could play it online with xbconnect. I convinced my parents to get high speed internet that JUST became available in my small town and got 1.5 mbps down and 256 up and my life has never been the same since.
8 megabytes per second? sounds great to me
Dang. I currently get 20mbps at my home today a lot has changed over the years.
*I was there 30.00 years ago*
Man, going from 56k to DSL was a game changer when I was growing up in the early 2000’s. Honestly don’t even remember what the speed was, it wasn’t as fast as all of my friends with cable internet at the time but it was enough to finally play games online while using ventrilo without lagging
Lucky bastard, that’s literally 1000 times faster than I had 20 years ago. When the download dialog box showed 1 KB/s instead of some bytes/s it was a good day.
And the great Windows 98!
I had 600kb/s download until 2018.
That website DSLreports is still around today, and fairly active. You can get a direct line of support to higher tier support sometimes.
That’s pretty close to the protocol limits of ADSL1 technology. Dude must have been living inside the phone exchange with a direct patch between the modem and the DSLAM.
I am confused. Some in this comment section are acting like this is ancient history. My speed is only about 3x better (3Mb down). On a supposed 300megabit plan. Which even if it’s only half in reality. Shouldn’t that be near 20Mb down?
What the fuck do i need to tell my isp to fix this shit. They even had a tech come out few months ago. “If the new router don’t work. Give a call”
212 kbps was insane at the time!!! Downloading Ragnarok Online or a few songs took a hot minute. Now it’s seconds to under a second.
at least they were more genuine than today
hey thats my hotel internet speeds in 2024!
Seems legit I think we has 512kbps ADSL and a 5GB or 10GB cap lol