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.
>
>
>
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