AHH, if only I lived in the countryside, rather than in a London suburb where my maximum ADSL speed has for at least the last decade been barely better than a T1 downstream, and hardly better than dialup upstream!

I'm stuck in Putney grrrr.

Unfortunately in the parts of the rural US where my employer frequently operates we still have difficulty getting a connection on par with a T1.

I remember being on dial-up as a kid back then and being insanely jealous that kids in college got T1 connections in their dorms. One of the reasons why I wanted to go to college as a kid was the blazing fast internet speed. Downloads that took hours for me, took seconds for them. It sounded like heaven to me back then.

I went to a state school that hadn't completed networking their dorms. Even at school, I had to use dial-up to get my email (using Pine through a VMS). My girlfriend at a different school had high-speed access in the dorms.

I remember making the 2 hour trip to visit her, and half of my excitement was all the music I could download once I got there.

I show up, and find out she hadn't connected her computer yet! First priority of that day was going to the campus bookstore to buy an ISA network card and 10Base2 terminators and connectors.