Board:   [DoveNet] Internet Discussion
Subject: Re: The Internet
From:    Boraxman
Date:    Fri Nov 06, 2026 08:34

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-=> poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Boraxman <=-

 pF> @MSGID: <6AECA486.198.dove.dove-int@realitycheckbbs.org>
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 -=> Boraxman wrote to phigan <=-

 Bo> I recently upgraded to FTTP.

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

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

 pF>  I thought 5mbps with LANTastic and 11 mbps with 802.11b was amazing
 pF>  when they came out. And my daughter was complaining about her net
 pF>  speeds in her room - she's got a furnace and a breaker box between her
 pF>  and the AP. She was getting 20 mbps on a speed test...

20megabits?  Pffff, thats like a serial connection these days!

I started my online experience with a 2400 baud modem and BBS's.  The biggest
file I transfered was 800-900kb, and it took an hour.

When I checked my stats on one of the BBS for total downloads, after a couple
of years of being online, it said the total download was 13MB.

I do that in a fraction of a second now.

Despite all this speed, people are still complaining of computers being slow.
There is still awful latency in some places.


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