Re:Build your own dial-up ISP in 2019
by roel_v on Monday February 11, 2019 @07:09PM
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But what's it like surfing the web on 56k6 nowadays? It was painful 15 years ago, doesn't seem like it would be feasible today. ('feasible' as in 'would actually use this for something', not as in 'technically works')
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Chrome DevTools has a feature that will let you try it out. I am right now. On the Network tab there is a throttling option. I added a profile for 56k, and based on some research set it to 6kb/s upload and download as well as 100ms ping. It is painful. Loading this thread's comments page took about 23 seconds, though loading the form I am submitting this comment on only took about 4 seconds.
I think it could be workable if you were to set uBlock to block all images and scripts.
I'd do 56kbps download, 48kps upload, at 100ms. Still loads this comments page fairly fast!
Kilobits or kilobytes? A 56k modem is max 56 kilobits/s, a.ka. 7 kilobytes/s (although realistically I never synced over 50k, and more common something like 48k)
The once popular developer site 15seconds was named because that's roughly how long a person would wait for a site to load... I'd say closer to 3-4 now is where I get really cranky.
Re:Build your own dial-up ISP in 2019
by colanderman on Monday February 11, 2019 @07:19PM
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Actually, it might not even technically work, due to bugs like this which cause slow connections to be dropped: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-curious-case-of-slow-downloa...
Re:Build your own dial-up ISP in 2019
by johnwalkr on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @12:36AM
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It’s not feasible without a proxy or special browser. When I run out of data on my phone plan, it’s throttled to 100kbps. Many sites load fine, notable HN and google search. But the average news site or company website will fail to load.
Nostalgia Nerd did a video on browsing with a 56k modem last year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17zfz017s9A