>SSH used to work perfectly fine over 28.8 kbps modems. I can't agree with "perfectly fine" here. Not unless you enabled local echo in your terminal emulator.

>SSH used to work perfectly fine over 28.8 kbps modems. I can't agree with "perfectly fine" here. Not unless you enabled local echo in your terminal emulator. The keyboard latency, especially for typo correction, was maddening. I still remember what a staggering QoL improvement it was the first time I used a low-latency connection to a server.