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   On 8/14/2025 8:19 AM, Nyssa wrote:   
   > SH wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 12/08/2025 13:08, Nyssa wrote:   
   >>> Rich wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:   
   >>>>> In comp.misc, Lawrence D'Oliveiro     
   >>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>> Further to that, 34 years ago puts their start in   
   >>>>>> 1991, before CD-ROM drives became popular in PCs. I   
   >>>>>> think they were giving out floppy disks for those   
   >>>>>> first few years.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Anybody remember seeing an AOL floppy?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Definitely. Better than CDs because you could just wipe   
   >>>>> and reuse them.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_1395721   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Which I did for many an AOL 3.5" floppy.  Not for   
   >>>> anything valuable, but for a "copy file X from computer   
   >>>> Y to computer Z" use they worked just fine.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The CDROM's were only useful to either join AOL (which   
   >>>> was never going to happen) or to make garden scarecrows.   
   >>>   
   >>> I made coasters with them.   
   >>>   
   >>> Nyssa, who believe it or not is still on dialup (not AOL)   
   >>> and has been for almost 40 years (not the same ISPs)   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> given the fastest dial up modems are 56 kilobits, it must   
   >> feel really slow viewing websites that rely on broadband   
   >> to fling audio or video or Java/SHockwave/Flash at you?   
   >>   
   >> And downloading software must have taken days?   
   >   
   > Plus my local (rural) phone lines are crap. I get ~43Kbps   
   > on average. It was better when I lived in the Big City.   
      
      
   If I may ask, which ISP are you using?   
      
   I've been doing some testing with several ISPs lately, all of whom seem   
   to resell GlobalPOPs these days (including AOL it seems). The top speed   
   I've gotten is 36000 a handful of times, and usually I get 31.2 or 33.6   
   - very difficult to get a V.90 connection anymore. They seem to have   
   done some kind of concentration where they've cheaped out on their phone   
   lines, doesn't seem to be real T1s anymore.   
      
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