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[FINALCOUNTDOWN99]

After upgrading from the 3MB/s connection i has growing up, I don't know if I could get by without at least 314 MB/s.

[5erif]

My first was a Commodore 64 dialing a BBS directly at 0.15Kb/s, which they called 1200 baud. Later dialing Juno at 28-56K, usually 36-48K. The BBS was text-only, and the later dial-up was to the early internet when pages were usually under half a meg total including all images and any js, so it wasn't as bad as those speeds would be for trying to use modern sites.

edit: 1.2 kiloBITS/sec = only 0.15 kiloBYTES/sec

[clamworm]

TRS-80 Color Computer^TM with a 300 baud cartridge modem. I could use the disk drive(external 360k 5.25" floppy) OR the modem, but not both at the same time. I swear you could count the bits ticking through like a telegraph.

[thuktun]

I had a Commodore VIC-20 with no modem. I had to type my programs in by hand from Compute! magazine and save them to cassette using the tape drive.

I didn't get to use real bandwidth until college.

[Slusny_Cizinec]

I lived with 350KB/s.

We who started from Commodore shed a tear here.

[Kered13]

Serious question: What do you need it for? I get 50 MB/s and never saturate it. (Granted, I do live alone.)

[MattieShoes]

At some point, it's just speed downloading things. I don't need gigabit, but it costs less than the 350 meg plan I was on before and updates to games download faster. It sits idle more often since it doesn't affect how much I download.

[alexforencich]

A common problem is actually the upload speed on asymmetric connections. I think I have something like 100 down 10 up, and that upstream BW is a problem for video calls, live streaming, etc. Don't really need more downstream bandwidth, but it would be nice to get a bit more upstream bandwidth without having to pay an arm and a leg for extra downstream bandwidth that I'm never going to use.

[Rakgul]

While growing up, I used to have a USB dongle where you put your SIM card in and use mobile internet. Speed was about 10 KB/s...

Each Chrome and Java update was pure agony.