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Re:Build your own dial-up ISP in 2019 by Cerium on Monday February 11, 2019 @07:26PM (#19139895)
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.

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Re:Build your own dial-up ISP in 2019 by shampster on Monday February 11, 2019 @08:09PM (#19140130)
I'd do 56kbps download, 48kps upload, at 100ms. Still loads this comments page fairly fast!
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Re:Build your own dial-up ISP in 2019 by kalleboo on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @02:08AM (#19141637)
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)
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Re:Build your own dial-up ISP in 2019 by tracker1 on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @01:53PM (#19146305)
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.
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