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I worked for a local ISP in the 90’s and can tell you you were not the only one. In my memory 56k modems were rarely reliably better than 33.6ks. Myself I see
by jqcoffey 5y ago
I worked for a local ISP in the 90’s and can tell you you were not the only one. In my memory 56k modems were rarely reliably better than 33.6ks. Myself I seem to recall feeling luck to get around 40k connections.
- hirako2000 5y agosame experience, France had decent phone lines for audio, but the bandwidth 56k provided over those lines were rarely stable, falling even below 1kB wasn't uncommon.
- gregmac 5y agoI definitely remember redialing multiple times to try to get both a modem from the 56k bank (my ISP had a mix while switching over), and a connection going as fast as possible. I don't remember whether the max speeds I got were, but when downloading a "big" multi-MB file it was worth it to get a faster connection.