The first cable Internet service I had was telephone return. Downstream was over the cable modem at ~512Kbps (IIRC) but upstream was over a dial-up modem. It w

The first cable Internet service I had was telephone return. Downstream was over the cable modem at ~512Kbps (IIRC) but upstream was over a dial-up modem. It was cool having a fast downstream but the slow upstream over finicky dial-up was a pain in the ass. If the dial-up dropped the in progress downloads all died because no ACKs could be sent. Gaming was no better than plain dial-up since your upstream had the same shitty latency as plain dial-up.