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Originally posted by StapleButter Even a poor modern connection today is still light years beyond what I was using back in 1997, and certainly when I first got online in 1994 1994 - 1997, starting out with 2400 baud modems and eventually wound up with a blazing fast 28.8kps modem. I clearly remember the busy signals, the faint voice of the phone system computer spewing out it's error messages through the tiny piezo modem speaker, the sudden dropped connection which always seemed to happen near the end of a long download that wasn't resumeable, people picking up the phone and causing garbage characters to spew all over my screen when I dialed directly into my unix shell account (telnetting into the server prevented this, plus it also allowed me to use web browsers and other internet software running on my machine, but the connection would still sometimes drop), and of course S_L_O_W_N_E_S_S even compared to using a smartphone in a somewhat dicey reception area. While I look back with nostolgia at those days, I am very glad we have what we have today. |

You'd think with numbers like that I wouldn't have complaints and all.
Except I was on their ass for four months straight at a point due to upstream loss because of how 'in disrepair' the return feed was in the neighborhood. So far, in fact, that they literally had the city lead get in touch with me and now I literally have him on speed dial. And I got twenty bucks a month off my bill for the foreseeable future since I'm basically frontline intel. I guess. Or maybe they dropped the bill because of the numerous complaints I had. Couldn't tell you. All I know is I had upstream data loss between 10+% at times and trying to send anything, much less have a Discord conversation, was nearly impossible.
Godforbid I wanted to stream or something like that.
It's still not perfect, but at least I've got the average rates down to under 1% loss most of the time. That's what happens when you try to send gigabit over old coax. State really needs to get with the times and do fiber deployment but solutions with Elon Musk dishes will probably come faster than that happens here.
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