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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I ran a BBS for many years. And I surfed a lot of BBSs and download a lot of files. I used Fido Net back in 1985 or so to send messages to a friend in Australia for free. At one point I remember we were all super happy to download a single megabyte in "just" 12 minutes. Just a few days ago I uploaded a 6GB file for one of our customers to download. He downloaded it all in just 2 minutes!

Yep, I started on BBS' too. I had a big list of the local BBS' telephone numbers. The worst were the BBS that only had one or two numbers so if other folks were connected, you had to try back later. And back then nothing was fast.

I think my first modem was either 9600 or maybe 14400, but I think I was able to fairly quickly upgrade to 28800. Then 56k which depending upon a variety of factors could be limited to 32k, or could theoretically be capable of 56k, but I think the best that I ever managed was 52k, and that was after rewiring/upgrading the cabling for the telephone line to the modem in the house.



This was my software of choice.


I tried Procomm Plus, but preferred Telix.