You don't have a high speed Internet connection??

[k0ua]

My first modems were all 300 baud, when we finally got 1200 and then 2400 baud, I could not imagine needing anything faster. My first computer (a TI 99-4A) was 16k of memory I later added 32K to expand it to the full 48K that it would address. My First IBM pc was 256k then I expanded it to 640K. I later put a 20Meg hard drive in it.. Wow, that was the end I was sure.

If anyone were to ask me, and no one did, I think the gen5 wireless will be the eventual savior of those in rural areas.

 

[GPintheMitten]

Compared to other civilized countries, USA high speed Internet access is in the Dark Ages. Availability completely depends on geography.

We are more dispersed than other countries.

 

[Toddao]

This is high speed for us. DSL , much better than Hughes net,. They cap it at 7 , I sure there is more but not sure why the cap it, we are at the end of the line I was told

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[ultrarunner]

Here is mine

Download Speed: 1323 kbps (165.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 341 kbps (42.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

 

[Sysop]

Remember when you got your first internet connection. It was probably 1200 baud. Things change over time and now we are in the gigabyte world. This is the first iteration of this technology and it is not likely to stay where it is today.

The first IBM personal computers cost $5 to $10,000 in todays dollars, had a whopping 48 mb of memory and a floppy disc.

G.fast will most likely improve and drop substantially in cost.

My first modem was a cradle you laid the handset into. It operated at 300BPS (bits per second).

It takes 8 bits to make 1 byte, which is one character. Plain text was transmitted at a whopping 37.5 characters per second. This is a moderately fast reading speed.

There was no "internet". "Getting online" was a primarily local thing at the time. You'd dial into a local BBS (Bulletin Board System) and connect with some other local geeks. A bit later on, if the SysOp (System Operator) of the BBS was really cool, he'd devote a modem and phoneline to linking his BBS to the closest university so research (and ASCII ****) could be shared among a wider audience.

 

[k0ua]

I had totally forgotten about the "ascii ****" or ascii and rtty pictures in general. That brings back some memories. I had some pictures stored on Baudot 5 level paper tape and could run them thru my TD (Tape Distributor) and have it printed out on my Model 15 Teletype. That machine was quite a mechanical marvel. Of course the Model 15 operated at 45 baud.

model 15 teletype - Google Search

 

[MossRoad]

Here is mine

Download Speed: 1323 kbps (165.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 341 kbps (42.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

28.33Mbps download
28.44Mbps upload

We're throttled by our corporate overlords.

 

[ultrarunner]

I had totally forgotten about the "ascii ****" or ascii and rtty pictures in general. That brings back some memories. I had some pictures stored on Baudot 5 level paper tape and could run them thru my TD (Tape Distributor) and have it printed out on my Model 15 Teletype. That machine was quite a mechanical marvel. Of course the Model 15 operated at 45 baud.

model 15 teletype - Google Search

My tape mill uses paper tape and I have the teletype with pucher to program it... I guess it is now approaching museum vintage.

 

[MossRoad]

My tape mill uses paper tape and I have the teletype with pucher to program it... I guess it is now approaching museum vintage.

We had a typesetter that had a paper tape that you had to manually pull through a reader to "boot" it. That was 1987. We had punch card programming that left right before I was hired. To this day, if you remove a tile in the raised floor in the computer lab, you stand a good chance of getting those punched chads blown in your eye by the air conditioning! :laughing:

 

[RobS]

This is the technology I install. Fiber to the outside of the house and then a Calix unit to convert from fiber to copper. It works great.View attachment 469927

Yep, that's exactly what we have now. Still lovin' it!