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Originally Posted by red-beard
We used cable modems without firewall, directly connecting our PCs. Everyone did it. And the speeds were AMAZING! 500kbps! You young whippersnappers have it easy!
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Yea, I have been around computers since the stone ages. Our office was a few hundred yards from the local AT&T exchange building. We knew some high on the food chain employees there. Our company got one of the first ISDN lines in Oklahoma City. At one point I had 5 AT&T employees in my office and I bet there were a dozen more on the phone in a support group trying to get it to work. Finally after 4 hours some propeller head in another state changed a setting and we were on-line. The speed pegged out the meter. Then he started cranking down the speed to what we were going to pay for, something affordable. They used that installation as the model to teach the AT&T techs how to do it.
I can remember being wowed by how much faster my 1,200 baud modem was over the old 300 baud manual dial modem I had been using. I am a geezer too.
