groynk: Great feature, I always thought limiting to dialup speed was stupid.
Though I wouldn't have thought 256k was 'broadband', but Wikipedia does say: "Broadband refers to a communication bandwidth of at least 256 kbit/s"
Yes dial up is pretty much unusable these days. It is surprising more haven't moved this way - a lot of people actually think their internet is broken when slowed to that speed driving up support costs.
Yes checked that too. Chorus still actually sells 256k as a product and a few providers were retailing it until a few months ago.
When I was in the first DSL trials in Wellington, back in the 90s, 128Kbps was broadband and certainly felt like when compared to 56Kbps modems.
The goalpost moves. When I started working in IT, mainframes used sat links at 300 bps to locations 5,000 kms away. When I first started using BBS services I connected at 1200 bps. The first ISP I joined had one 64 Kbps link to the Internet for all its dial up users to share. The first broadband service I joined had 128 Kbps speeds. I now have 100 Mbps at home - way more than my first ISP had for the entire service.
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