Comment on 56k.rip - The full 1996 dial-up experience
adarza@lemmy.ca 5 weeks agoiirc the first usr x2 and k56flex modems weren’t out til 1997
Comment on 56k.rip - The full 1996 dial-up experience
adarza@lemmy.ca 5 weeks agoiirc the first usr x2 and k56flex modems weren’t out til 1997
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Then you discovered that the other side was still running on a 28k modem, and you never really got 56k…
remotelove@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Or, your phone lines were shit and you could never negotiate up to 56k… I also seem to remember that there was a compression thing with competing brands that was an issue as well.
Still, I was lucky enough to be able to experience everything from sub-300bps all the way up to 56k and it was a fun ride for a little bit. (300bps was some of the first iterations of packet radio.)