• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    My grandparents lived in rural OK and had dial-up until 2018 when they finally were able to get a 2mbps DSL line. It really wasn’t much faster than the dial-up.

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      16 hours ago

      You mean it wasn’t able to be saturated?

      As slow as 2MBit/s is, relatively speaking, it’s still magnitudes better than dial-up.

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        16 hours ago

        Yes, I mean it never hit its rated speed. Also that many modern sites didn’t work any better than they did on the dialup anyway.