What was your first home internet setup?

What was your first home internet setup?

  • Dial-up

    Votes: 221 85.3%
  • ISDN

    Votes: 4 1.5%
  • ADSL

    Votes: 15 5.8%
  • Satellite internet

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 3G / USB modem

    Votes: 12 4.6%
  • 4G / 5G

    Votes: 2 0.8%
  • Fibre

    Votes: 3 1.2%
  • Other

    Votes: 2 0.8%

  • Total voters
    259

BCoetzer

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We might just be on a nostalgia streak, having considered the specs of our first PCs and remembering our first cell phones.

So why stop there...

What was your first home internet setup?

And when? Do you remember the connection speed?
 
Dial up, 56kbps wasn't it? What a schlep man?! But it was still something to behold. One was in awe of this online world, a surreal parallel universe waiting to be explored. It's all relative..
 
Dial-up.

Recall being envious of those that had 128K ISDN.

Then got ADSL later on, 384Kbps line because we were too far from the exchange to get 512Kbps.

The transformation was real though. Going from about 7KBps download to 39-40KBps was something awesome for me back then.
 
pre-internet 1200baud modem for connecting to some local BBSs, and then later 14.400baud modem for connecting to the internet. IIRC the ISP was ABSA.
 
Dial up modem.

Every time going online and hearing the machine spirit of the modem screeching in pain as it needed to connect (then realizing later you could mute it in some windows setting).
 
3g, using my phone connected via USB cable to my PC to get an internet connection going.. used either a motorola v360 or Nokia 3510i..

Granted, it wasn't very often at all, cause data was expensive back then..

6 years later I got 10MB ADSL line, both line and data on the company's dime..
 
Dial-up for a bit then ISDN when i complained to my parents that my school friends had more than i did lol.
 
Vodacom 3G Dongle
Followed by 2MB ADSL
Followed by Vodacom 4G Router
Followed by 100MB Vodacom Fibre
 
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