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A comment on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. ... by jdkdbrnrnrb on Thursday August 28, 2025 @10:03PM (#45059217)
You never used dialup did you?
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Re:Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. ... by kingforaday on Thursday August 28, 2025 @10:20PM (#45059337)
zmodem to the rescue!
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Re:Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. ... by anonzzzies on Friday August 29, 2025 @12:23AM (#45060165)
300 baud. Was enough to download grainy porn pics. With a proper download tool that continues after hangups etc you can just leave it on for a week and I have when downloading software end 70s. No problem. Also via the airwaves: we had software via the radio every sunday. Works fine. Modern software is shitty large: it would be nice if a VPN provider would just release the driver and a cli which should not weigh over a mega (far less but outside mr Whitney i am not sure if that type of software dev still exists) for this type of transfer.
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Re:Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. ... by tzs on Friday August 29, 2025 @03:33PM (#45068395)
9600 bps dialup using the protocols commonly used back then such as ZMODEM could do file transfers at 3 MB/hour. That would be fine for grabbing VPN software.
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