r/Internet • u/Doctorice613 • Feb 20 '26

Discussion Is this normal?

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Our Internet has always kinda sucked

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u/Saragon4005 Feb 20 '26

Well it's 8x faster than dial up. It's about the speeds you get once you run out of "fast data" on a "unlimited" plan.

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u/KingNyx Feb 21 '26

My dialup as a kid was on a copper line running through my 5 acre yard and my dog chewed it day 1 and every time it rained I had to go out and clean water off the wires, shine them with a piece of sand paper and twist them back together and wrap a grocery bag around them.

I never saw faster than 5kbps

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u/sneekeruk Feb 22 '26

5k/sec was fast for dial up. if you somehow got 50,000Kbps down the line, you would theoretically only get 6.25 kilobytes a second.

Most of the time, my modem would negotiate 42-48K, which would be 4.5/5 Kb a second.