@sabi 56k but on the line I was able to acquire a usage...

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@sabi 56k but on the line I was able to acquire a usage permit for, I was only ever able to get slightly over 19k2bps, and since I used it with a slower 386 laptop for the first time I used setserial to configure the COM port down to that so the CPU could keep up with the interrupts

Like 27 June at 21:58 | Wall-to-wall | Open on toot.mirbsd.org

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Sabrina, canid forest spirit

@mirabilos both of these are familiar! Family computer couldn't keep up with a 14.4 modem in Windows but was fine in DOS. Also my dad moved to a very rural town and couldn't get over 21.9

27 June at 22:31 | Open on infosec.space

mirabilos

@sabi in my case it was only having a 20m cable between modem and TAE (only cable I got for free), then another 20–30m inhouse wiring, then a converter to an ISDN PMX telephone system digitalising that to an ISDN voice channel, then on the ISP end, arriving at an analogue modem again…

27 June at 23:07 | Open on toot.mirbsd.org

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