<div dir="auto">I remember having a 2400 baud modem (took a lightning strike over the phone line), got a 33.6 with the new machine. Did 56k for a while and then jumped to dual-line ISDN and single mostly to keep costs down. Apparently I was residential customer #4 for DSL in Georgia. That was a substantial upgrade. Spent lots of time on the phone with Bell South tier3 support :-)<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I think Prodigy, first ISP, had a 12 or 24 hour limit. Earthlink was 33.6 through ISDN. Their limit was 24 hours. The ISDN limit was none for single line and $1/hr extra for the second line. Wife set the limit on that :-)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm pretty sure the Slackware download was on the 33.6 kbps gear as the end of that modem was the i386dx system (with the 387 coprocessor!).</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 17, 2017 4:40 PM, "Joey Kelly" <<a href="mailto:joey@joeykelly.net">joey@joeykelly.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Heh. I remember doing 40MB OS/2 fixpacks on a 33.6k modem, and my
ISP had a 12-hour limit. It was a race, I'll tell ya...<br>
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<pre>Hey guys,
I'm relocating to Atlanta this weekend, I start an admin job at a
hosting company on Monday. I ran the New Orleans LUG for longer than I
care to remember, and I'm a Slackware/FreeBSD/Perl guy.
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