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lan storage at 10mbs? T1 is only 1.544 Mbps. Those are incredibly slow by today's standards

• mixmastamyk 2y ago
  We often had 100baseT and it was quite snappy for text heavy coms and reasonably sized images from the net. 9600 was already faster than you can read, this was an order of magnitude faster. Quake deathmatch was incredible, I remember getting almost twenty folks on a server once. :D At some point I procured a 1600x1200 monitor… but not until a later job after 2k with an SGI was my computer able to handle that resolution comfortably.
  • Bluestein 2y ago
    > was already faster than you can read, You make an interesting point: This *is* some sort of breakthrough point: When "average human textual input bandwidth" was matched ... (This might be comparable to AI: Now we are trying to match "average human processing capacity" ...
    • mixmastamyk 2y ago
      Yep, I think my first modem was 2400 baud and even that was slightly faster than I could read. Sluggish modem websites have no one to blame but themselves.