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What was your first home internet setup?
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now05ster
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Flip same, on both fronts.Zoltrix 56k dialup.
Callmore after 7pm if you lucky not to get kicked off
Loved my Zoltrix.
konfab
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Trying to get Half Life 2 working on dialup was absolutely enraging.
theratman
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I was gifted all my dial up modems by others who had upgraded, so was never using the latest, but that fine. Started on a 14kb then, 33kb and then the famous 56kb.
mr_norris
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A lot of us are showing our age. Dial up gang unite 
labratza
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We were so far behind most of the world. I remember us been on dialup and chatting to my cousin who was in Cyprus and he had ADSL already. Use to use the glorified netmeeting in windows for talking to the family. Trying to copy data from cousin was a nightmare on Dial up
Kosmik
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Rich b****, started offf with a 9600/14400 until getting a nice external 33k. Never had a 56k.
Kosmik
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Beltel, bbs and newsgroups... and who in Durban can forget good old mIRCWe had BelTel before the internet...
Then started at the bottom when the Internet came for reals...
- 14k US Robotics
- 56k upgrade at some point where we had two phone lines
- ADSL 512k when it first came out
- Up to 4 meg line I think, still with a cap
Then I moved out of home
- iBurst - which was a piddly speed but good for downloads
- ADSL, probably 4 meg as soon as I could get it.
- Moved house again and got upgraded to 10 meg
- Had to change to LTE because of exchange congestion
- Eventually got 20 meg fibre as it was laid in our area (Crystal web)
- Have 50meg now after latest move.
labratza
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Did the old WUG setups ever have internet broadcast or was it pure file sharing?
Not officially, but we didn't stop WUG users to use the infrastructure for whatever they want. There were loads of PPTP instances running.
labratza
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Had iBurst for work but also came with a 3GB cap if remember correctly was not true uncapped. also speed was limited to 1MB/s if remember correctly. Speed and cap was main pain on iBurst. still got a few of there units sitting in storage. Below is the modem that I had/have
Totempole
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samkruger
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gregmcc
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Brings back good memories of those analog phone lines and blueboxing to Sprint toll free lines.
Better stop there before I incriminate myself
Better stop there before I incriminate myself
Wut
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My parents paid for 56k dial-up at home. I installed ISDN when I moved into my own place, but would usually only connect on a 64k single line most of the time except on weekends when I would use both lines to to get the full 128k experience.
Initially BelTel with a SLIP connection before going more direct (I think Mweb). Oh the upgrades to 9600, 14.4k, 28k, 33.6k and 56k. Bless the R7 weekend in the latter part of that period.
After I moved out, 2G (later 3G; needed that to Skype the family across the world) and the WUG were my primary internet and sneaker net. A friend had a trommel of DVDs and a database to lookup what DVDs had what content. NAG LANs were a case of buy/borrow harddrives and hoard while having a couple of FPS rounds -- the dome was eye opening in terms of humanity, particularly after the first night.
Eventually DSL data prices came down and I could justify the cost of that (DSTV price just for internet). I never really had a TV after I moved out from the parents.
Now the household has a regular argument of what streaming subscriptions are an unneeded luxury and do we need more than 50Mbps for fibre because the main router is setup and scores well on bufferbloat testing.
After I moved out, 2G (later 3G; needed that to Skype the family across the world) and the WUG were my primary internet and sneaker net. A friend had a trommel of DVDs and a database to lookup what DVDs had what content. NAG LANs were a case of buy/borrow harddrives and hoard while having a couple of FPS rounds -- the dome was eye opening in terms of humanity, particularly after the first night.
Eventually DSL data prices came down and I could justify the cost of that (DSTV price just for internet). I never really had a TV after I moved out from the parents.
Now the household has a regular argument of what streaming subscriptions are an unneeded luxury and do we need more than 50Mbps for fibre because the main router is setup and scores well on bufferbloat testing.
