Board:   [DoveNet] Internet Discussion
Subject: Re: The Internet
From:    Boraxman
Date:    Thu Nov 05, 2026 11:14

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-=> phigan wrote to natem <=-

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 ph> @REPLY: <a7182857-73e2-570b-bcd8-26d3382fdecb@WAREHOUS>
 ph>   Re: Re: The Internet
 ph>   By: natem to Outatime on
 ph> Tue Nov 03 2026 08:48 am

 > buying new gear. I remember my first DSL was 128k down ... then cable at 1mb

 ph> Man, I remember the very first time I saw a download at 1megabyte per
 ph> second. My heart probably skipped a beat. It was on a cablemodem that
 ph> used dialup for upstream, even.

I recently upgraded to FTTP.

Now on a 500MBit plan.  50mb/s download speed.

To think that my own internal network was slower.  Now I can download from the
Internet faster than I could transfer PC to PC in the 2000s.


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