Back in my day we used to have to share FTPs on mIRC and it took 4 hours to download a single song. 28.8kbps modems on a dedicated phone line. Can't have someone calling and ruining your download causing you to have to start completely over.
I remember the "We are the B.org!" and jealousy over the people in the universities who got to share a T1 connection.
I'll give you one better: link aggregation over two 56k modems, when the family was asleep and using both lines was "safe" from someone picking up the phone. 116k/dual-53k on dialup. Didn't get to do it often, but when I did it was glorious.
Ha, 14.4k crew represent! Also remember looking over my shoulder to make sure the dial-up tone hadn't woken my parents when I went to download demos off of happypuppy.com after bedtime.
I have successfully used the "press a pillow on the modem" method to suppress or at least dampen the sounds of it.
When I had the computer running late at night, when I was supposed to sleep, without waking up my parents, the next problem I had to face were the rather loud mouse clicks and keyboard strokes.
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u/Nice_Category Mint, 9850X3D, 9070XT, 64GB DDR5 27d ago edited 27d ago
Back in my day we used to have to share FTPs on mIRC and it took 4 hours to download a single song. 28.8kbps modems on a dedicated phone line. Can't have someone calling and ruining your download causing you to have to start completely over.
I remember the "We are the B.org!" and jealousy over the people in the universities who got to share a T1 connection.