Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds

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• PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  K…bps

  Welcome to 1999.

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• yumpsuit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  now stack ‘em on that poptart borzoi

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• Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hate to be that guy, but… Is it time to get DSL?

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• zululove@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I imagine it sounds amazing

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  • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Reeeee… BONG… Bong… ffffffftttttttttt… Bung…

    Fffffffffftttttttt…

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• noretus@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • xyguy@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    If you like that

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  • Zerlyna@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The whole video was really fun to watch!!

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• ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The hearing of 3 observers was lost during the handshake.

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• jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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…

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• Dionysus@leminal.space ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • deltapi@lemmy.world ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Was your USR a courier or sportster? In my experience the couriers had better success connecting and operating at 48000+bps

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  • Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• okwhateverdude@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• ptolemai@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How would Euthanists use modems? Oh…

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  • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    If you built it… Someone will min / max.

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• Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  More like masochists than enthusiasts.

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• realitista@lemmus.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Glad to see the USR Courier was used here. A venerable workhorse.

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  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I can’t seem to get rid of my last one. Sentimental, I suppose.

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    • realitista@lemmus.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Who knows what might still be functioning after the apocalypse.

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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:

  youtube.com/watch?v=WhbBYLB90U0

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  • masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    On an even unrelateder note but tangentially semi-related to your comment, may I present:

    [the user] symphony for dot matrix printers

    vimeo.com/6868193

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Exquisite.

      I absolutely love everything and anything that can make music out of something that isn’t intended to make music.

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• altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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