fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agoEnthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speedswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1424arrow-down15cross-posted to: retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
arrow-up1419arrow-down1external-linkEnthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speedswww.tomshardware.comfne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square35fedilinkcross-posted to: retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
minus-squareokwhateverdude@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·24 days agoI remember doing this with NetZero accounts. You could trivially hack out the ads, and dial in-twice (if you had two phone lines), and do the bonding. Free slightly less shitty internets. Very useful for Napster and LimeWire back in the day.
I remember doing this with NetZero accounts. You could trivially hack out the ads, and dial in-twice (if you had two phone lines), and do the bonding. Free slightly less shitty internets. Very useful for Napster and LimeWire back in the day.