This was similar to a trick that a few smaller (less serious) hobby-ISPs did back in the days of 14.4k/28.8k modems to take advantage of the “reasonably priced” business plans for ISDN. They’d register multiple businesses at a single address to qualify for the plans, then balance new egress connections across the pool using squid and other magic. Fun times…
Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds
Submitted 1 month ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
ace_garp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The hearing of 3 observers was lost during the handshake.
Dionysus@leminal.space 1 month ago
My first modem was an AT&T 300 baud acoustic coupler. My last was a USRobotics 56k for the BBS I ran till the early 2000s.
I later switched to DSL for my Internet, but the reason we never did this sort of thing was the ISDN was just easier to get bandwidth and the tech existed to do what you needed with a few of them.
12x POTS lines, or 6 full duplex ISDNs.
My 56k never actually achieved that, most of the time it was 33.6 or 28.8.
This is neat, and fun to see them still being tinkered with.
deltapi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Was your USR a courier or sportster? In my experience the couriers had better success connecting and operating at 48000+bps
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
My last modems (cannot remember my 1st modem) were also US Robotics. I ran 2 or 3 BBS’s and FidoNet, on Apple ][ and PC back in the day. Also an online dating system. They were fun times.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 month ago
K…bps
Welcome to 1999.
__siru__@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
And yet sometimes even with modern file sharing hosters I can only get 100KByte/s connections.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That’s still faster than this cluster.
zululove@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I imagine it sounds amazing
yggstyle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Reeeee… BONG… Bong… ffffffftttttttttt… Bung…
Fffffffffftttttttt…
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I remember doing this with NetZero accounts. You could trivially hack out the ads, and dial in-twice (if you had two phone lines), and do the bonding. Free slightly less shitty internets. Very useful for Napster and LimeWire back in the day.
billwashere@lemmy.world 1 month ago
More like masochists than enthusiasts.
naticus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They’re the same picture.
realitista@lemmus.org 1 month ago
Glad to see the USR Courier was used here. A venerable workhorse.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I can’t seem to get rid of my last one. Sentimental, I suppose.
realitista@lemmus.org 1 month ago
Who knows what might still be functioning after the apocalypse.
Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I bet you could get slightly quicker speeds if they ran a pihole or something to block ads.
This is kind of an interesting idea. I wonder if it’s feable to reuse all the old 56k modems?
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Even 20 years ago you needed ad blocking to make sites load a bit faster on dial-up. Now you would need no script and an image blocker too.
Broken@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
If 12 modems simultaneously handshake and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound? You’re damn right it does and probably shattered glass too.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I hate to be that guy, but… Is it time to get DSL?
AstroLightz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Kilobits or Kilobytes?
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Little b is bit, big B is byte
yumpsuit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
now stack ‘em on that poptart borzoi
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Semi-barely-related thing that popped into my brain on imagining the sound of this:
The UNATCO theme from Deus Ex played by an ‘orchestra’ of floppy drives:
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
On an even unrelateder note but tangentially semi-related to your comment, may I present:
[the user] symphony for dot matrix printers
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Exquisite.
I absolutely love everything and anything that can make music out of something that isn’t intended to make music.
altphoto@lemmy.today 1 month ago
The ISPs got complaints about the phacking noise from their hubs. So they moved them to the jungle where they killed off all animals except for the def animals… And so that’s why we cannot communicate with animals.
ptolemai@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How would Euthanists use modems? Oh…
yggstyle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If you built it… Someone will min / max.
Cybersteel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Can I daisy chain multiple pc 98s together to make something that surpass modern windows.
noretus@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Here’s the money-shot: youtu.be/LZ259Jx8MQY?t=1240
I wish they had used a better mic but that was like giving my soul a really good scratch.
Zerlyna@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The whole video was really fun to watch!!
xyguy@startrek.website 1 month ago
If you like that
noretus@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
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