Toll-free dial-up and the landline were very handy at my cottage, where the only moderately high-speed option was expensive satellite or microwave access.
I also worked from home at the cottage; fortunately it only involved text-only remote access which also worked remarkably well at 56K; large file transfers (off-line backups etc.) ran at night. m On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 4:41 PM Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Fri, 5 May 2023 at 21:26, Mike Stein via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > No doubt many folks do have a need for speed but FWIW I get by fine with > 6 > > Mbps D/L speed, streaming Youtube and local cable channels, browsing the > > web, email & fora, etc.; > > ... wow. > > I had 500Mb/s for ~CzK 1000/mth in Prague. Ballpark ₤30. > > Here in the Isle of Man I'm on 100Mb/s and it's a moderate pain. But > for my 1st 2 months here, I had only 16Mb/s at my mum's, and it was > horrible. > > > > I've also got a fall-back 56K toll-free dial-up > > option which is still good for email and messaging when broadband is not > > available. > > I kept a POTS modem around for years but after 2002 or so, it just > didn't seem worth it. Even from 512kb/s, dropping an order of > magnitude felt like not being online at all. By the time I was on a > few megabits/sec I mothballed the dialup device. > > I haven't had a landline since 2014 now. > > > > -- > Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven > Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com > Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven > IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 > Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 >
