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Re:Why 56k Modems Relied on Digital Phone Lines You Didn't K... by genewitch on Saturday March 08, 2025 @08:52AM (#43300245)
What market did you have 1.5mbit dsl in, in 1999? GTE in LA county offered 768k/768k symmetric. In 1999. I can't remember when that was increased, but it was after GTE got bought out.
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Re:Why 56k Modems Relied on Digital Phone Lines You Didn't K... by badc0ffee on Saturday March 08, 2025 @06:18PM (#43304508)
Calgary. I remember it being asymmetric, probably 256 or 512 up.
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Re:Why 56k Modems Relied on Digital Phone Lines You Didn't K... by gnabgib on Saturday March 08, 2025 @09:55PM (#43305744)
Cadvision? 3mbps cable (sadly Rogers) wasn't impossible at the time.
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Re:Why 56k Modems Relied on Digital Phone Lines You Didn't K... by badc0ffee on Saturday March 08, 2025 @10:36PM (#43305949)
Nucleus!
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Re:Why 56k Modems Relied on Digital Phone Lines You Didn't K... by gnabgib on Saturday March 08, 2025 @10:51PM (#43306025)
You know they're still around... somehow? :| The website makes their age clear: https://www.mynucleus.ca/
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