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-squareZen_Shinobi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·24 days agoI bet you could get slightly quicker speeds if they ran a pihole or something to block ads. This is kind of an interesting idea. I wonder if it’s feable to reuse all the old 56k modems?
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·24 days agoEven 20 years ago you needed ad blocking to make sites load a bit faster on dial-up. Now you would need no script and an image blocker too.
I bet you could get slightly quicker speeds if they ran a pihole or something to block ads.
This is kind of an interesting idea. I wonder if it’s feable to reuse all the old 56k modems?
Even 20 years ago you needed ad blocking to make sites load a bit faster on dial-up. Now you would need no script and an image blocker too.