← Back to context Comment by sandworm101 1 day ago Iirc, most copper lines had a 50kb cap, making 56kb modems liars. 2 comments sandworm101 Reply mcny 1 day ago I can't prove this but I somehow remember peaks of up to 48 kilobits per second though never sustained.I remember being amazed to see download resume right in the browser even as late as 2009 (I was only on dial up u til about 2006). throwaway984393 1 day ago IIRC limit isn't the copper, it's the CO interconnects with high/low frequency cutoffs, the same copper was used for 1.5Mbps synchronous DSL. For very short runs, 50Mbps VDSL
mcny 1 day ago I can't prove this but I somehow remember peaks of up to 48 kilobits per second though never sustained.I remember being amazed to see download resume right in the browser even as late as 2009 (I was only on dial up u til about 2006).
throwaway984393 1 day ago IIRC limit isn't the copper, it's the CO interconnects with high/low frequency cutoffs, the same copper was used for 1.5Mbps synchronous DSL. For very short runs, 50Mbps VDSL
I can't prove this but I somehow remember peaks of up to 48 kilobits per second though never sustained.
I remember being amazed to see download resume right in the browser even as late as 2009 (I was only on dial up u til about 2006).
IIRC limit isn't the copper, it's the CO interconnects with high/low frequency cutoffs, the same copper was used for 1.5Mbps synchronous DSL. For very short runs, 50Mbps VDSL