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Originally Posted by Quoth
I had dial-up till November 2005 at 19K to 28K, though 1996-1998 I'd had ISDN (64K or twice as expensive per minute 128).
Downloading from Gutenberg was still faster than driving to the bookshop. Back in 1982 we had 1200/75 to BBS and then in 1986 access to email via X25 PAD dial-up was 300 baud to send draft papers internationally.
Downloading video before Dec 2005? Ha! Forget it, but ebooks were not a problem, except I had no dedicated ereader.
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I had all the way up to 56k via dialup. I used to have US Robotics modems because they used a DSP and allowed installing whatever was the latest standards. Plus they were very good modems.