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Yes. Most people back in 2001 were not using fibre. Dial-up, DSL, etc are all much higher latency. In Dial-up you are easily talking at least 100ms slower, if n
by yardstick 4y ago
Yes. Most people back in 2001 were not using fibre. Dial-up, DSL, etc are all much higher latency. In Dial-up you are easily talking at least 100ms slower, if not a lot more.
- mmh0000 4y agoAh. How I would have killed for a 100ms ping back in my 56k modem days. My average ping on any Quake2 server was 250-300ms. It’s amazing how times change, now I get annoyed when my ping is higher than 30ms.
- b112 4y agoIt’s amazing how times change, now I get annoyed when my ping is higher than 30ms. That's because 2sec of ping is used to request 124 fonts, each using one char.
- scaramanga 4y agoman, from my memory, if you were getting 250, you were incredibly lucky and probably lived close to the exchange :) 300-350 was more the norm for where i was.