for me it was back in 2012 i think
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- I was part of the ADSL trial in the UK and have been on a form of broadband ever since.
2000? Earlier? 🤔
I’m not exactly sure when we had first upgraded from 56.6k dialup to a DSL(? If I am remembering the acronym right; it was phone line broadband not cable) line. I was still playing Ultima Online at the time so it had to be prior to 2003 (I quit when Age of Shadows fucked the game all up).
By 2007, we had cable Internet and it was like triple the speeds of the DSL.
Somewhere in the mid 1990s, my company provided ISDN so I could work from home
Oooh yeah, ISDN. My cable solution that I got in year 2000 (to answer OP’s question) didn’t work very well, and DSL wasn’t an option yet I think.
For those ready to listen to my nostalgia:
ISDN was awesome because even the smallest solution had two channels. So two phonecalls on one line. Great for businesses. Also, a channel had 64 kbit, slightly faster than the analog modems which I think maxed out at 54 kbit, which was often unlikely to be reached.
But the trick is, the two channels could be combined to 128 kbit. An incoming or outgoing phonecall would simply reduce the speed back to 64, instead of interrupting the connection.
Although I paid by the minute, and using two channels doubled the cost, so I usually only used it when I was literally waiting for a data transfer and would be paying the same price anyway.
Actually, I think my ISDN would count as dial-up, as I paid by the minute.
I don’t know how much it costs. I remember being shocked at the price but the company was willing to pay, so great. At the time, there weren’t too many people able to work from home
The price wasn’t too bad for me. I didn’t have a very high income, but I paid for my ISDN myself.
But I do remember the improvement after switching to DSL, even if this was the early days of DSL that didn’t work thaaat great, it was still way better than analog modem or ISDN.
As soon as I could.
I was in a really rural area for a while, so probably 2001 when I got someplace civilized?
2012? Brutal I’m guessing you lived far away from civilization.
For me It was probably 2004.
I went to college in 1997 and went from 28.8kbps dialup to a 2.4gbps OC-48. I had no idea how slow the rest of the internet was until I had a better connection than most servers (at the time).
Your dorm must have had epic lan parties.
I worked for the department that ran student computer labs (before most people started bringing computers to college with them). That’s where the real epic lan parties happened. Every time we’d update the desktops celebrate with an all-nighter lan party for staff and friends.
I went to a small charter high school around 2002-3 and their whole education curriculum was on computers. The school principal would do monthly lan parties, then wipe the floor with us teenagers on age of empires 2. I still fear elephant charges.
My exact timeline.
Hello fellow 45 year old.
Hey! How are your knees.
Kinda painful when it rains, cause of the titanium pins
What was the time in-between those two?
Would be insane going from 28.8k to 2.4gbps
The 90 minutes drive from where I grew up to my dorm room.
So you moved and got a 83333x improvement just by moving?
Other than paying for tuition and dorm housing, yes.
2009 was when my family switched from dialup to wifi and all of a sudden my old laptop had access to internet.
1995 or so. My first apartment had 10 mbit/sec internet. Was so cool to download anything in seconds. :)
Well…now you’re just going to have to share your time machine with the rest of us!
What? I assume you DO have a time machine, right? You clearly have cutting edge technology decades before anyone else. I think I only got above 5MB/sec internet about 5 years ago? Now it’s suddenly 100MB/Sec internet, and I’m like “Ok cool…I’m still not doing anything that requires that much speed…”
I live in Sweden. It was common with ethernet connections in the apartments when I was growing up. So not a time machine. But I could be getting the exact year wrong a little bit.
And it was 10 mbit connections, so that’s just about 1 mbyte / second. Still plenty fast when it arrived.
Today I have 500 mbit connection with option for 1000 mbit. It’s common here.
Edit: I asked chatgpt and it was 1999 that the first apartments got 10 mbit / sec connections. So I was off with about 5 years actually.
20 November 1999 was the day I finally got my ISDN connection up and running, a huge improvement over dial-up at the time.
(/s)
You can’t answer when you stopped using dialup?
…ok…kinda suspicious honestly. That would be like me asking “Hey, do you have any bread in your house?” and your response is to get weirded out that I’m asking, and burn your house down so I don’t discover anything.
…the fuck were you doing with your internet???
OP just said he couldn’t tell you that.
2007 when I moved out from my parents house. I grew up rural and high speed was just becoming available at that time.
1999
I got a cable modem for my birthday that year. Ha!
No speed caps, and I hit a whopping 4Mbps download. It was faster than the local highschool. Sweeeeet.
1997 because my university had broadband in the dorms.
Somewhere around 2005
2002/2003
