Somehow it was actually my dad downloading the things and then making me burn CDs of what he got, in 2007 (Yay Nero!) To be fair, he was always downloading a bunch of stuff from our local BBSs in the early 90s, too.
Thankfully we had a second phone line just for that… my folks couldn’t get DSL until 2012, and only last year was able to move from DSL to gigabit fiber. (Both because of legislative attempts to bring better internet to rural areas, the local cable monopoly still won’t lay cable out there)
When I commented, I completely missed the 2007 part. Was thinking back to Napster / Kazaa days.
I had 128k DSL in 2007 (I think it was called iDSL or something because it was the same line rate as ISDN but could reach further than regular DSL – I lived out in the boonies).
Between then and 2019, I struggled with various connection methods: worsening DSL, satellite, and 3G). Best I managed was a cell phone signal booster and an old phone with semi-unlimited data where I got a steady ~5 Mbps at a reasonable latency on 3G.
In 2020, right before COVID hit, I finally moved to civilization and had decent cable until I got fiber 2-3 years ago.
Oh, and yeah, we had very similar broadband grants to nowhere. The fiber I got in 2022 was likely what we paid for in 2015.
Sounds like you had a rougher go of it than me, I’m glad it’s better for you now! How was the satellite, I hear the upstream and latency were no fun?
I moved out of my parents around 2003, and generally lived the city life with some kind of cable most places I went. I moved back in with my mom a few years ago though, and it was pretty rough working remotely on that 6Mbps connection. So thankful for the gigabit now.
This was pre-Starlink, so kind of crappy. Bandwidth was decent for the time at 12 Mbps (I think upstream was 3?) and the latency was what it was (~900ms round trip). The draconian 10 GB data caps were what got you, though.
You could RDP in a pinch to put out a fire, but you would not want to be working remotely over it on a daily basis.
Somehow it was actually my dad downloading the things and then making me burn CDs of what he got, in 2007 (Yay Nero!) To be fair, he was always downloading a bunch of stuff from our local BBSs in the early 90s, too.
Thankfully we had a second phone line just for that… my folks couldn’t get DSL until 2012, and only last year was able to move from DSL to gigabit fiber. (Both because of legislative attempts to bring better internet to rural areas, the local cable monopoly still won’t lay cable out there)
When I commented, I completely missed the 2007 part. Was thinking back to Napster / Kazaa days.
I had 128k DSL in 2007 (I think it was called iDSL or something because it was the same line rate as ISDN but could reach further than regular DSL – I lived out in the boonies).
Between then and 2019, I struggled with various connection methods: worsening DSL, satellite, and 3G). Best I managed was a cell phone signal booster and an old phone with semi-unlimited data where I got a steady ~5 Mbps at a reasonable latency on 3G.
In 2020, right before COVID hit, I finally moved to civilization and had decent cable until I got fiber 2-3 years ago.
Oh, and yeah, we had very similar broadband grants to nowhere. The fiber I got in 2022 was likely what we paid for in 2015.
Sounds like you had a rougher go of it than me, I’m glad it’s better for you now! How was the satellite, I hear the upstream and latency were no fun?
I moved out of my parents around 2003, and generally lived the city life with some kind of cable most places I went. I moved back in with my mom a few years ago though, and it was pretty rough working remotely on that 6Mbps connection. So thankful for the gigabit now.
This was pre-Starlink, so kind of crappy. Bandwidth was decent for the time at 12 Mbps (I think upstream was 3?) and the latency was what it was (~900ms round trip). The draconian 10 GB data caps were what got you, though.
You could RDP in a pinch to put out a fire, but you would not want to be working remotely over it on a daily basis.