Would you be able to use dialup again? Now that it's 2016 and the internet is much faster...

Would you be able to use dialup again? Now that it's 2016 and the internet is much faster, would you be able to live without all that speed?

It depends.

Without the distractions of downloading, porn, Netflix, etc. I might actually get stuff done.

Pretty much, e-mailing isn't expensive.

Nope. I'm old enough that I grew up at the same time as the Internet was growing up. I had a 14.4 modem and it was slow as shit, then got a 28.8 and finally a 56k back in 1996. It was just fast enough to play Duke Nukem 3D, Warcraft 2, C&C, AoE but downloading was impossible. Had to use stuff like GetRight and let it run all night and the next day just to complete files.

Shit was awful.
You needed those shit download managers full of malwares or any long download would be corrupted at the end.
One fucking month to download a music videoat limeware.
Even porn. Five minutes for a single image to load.

Nope, not only did it suck when it was being used normally, but modern websites are so full of bloat you wouldn't survive these days

>Implying anyone here used dialup
Go away grandpa

Usenet and Gopherspace, baby!

dial up was dogshit but i miss the sweet sound of success when connecting and then firing up brood war as a kid

Nope.

Not only was it horrible when it was the norm. The websites of today would make it almost impossible.

I read an article about Netscape who increased browser download size in 1996 from 1 MB to 6Mb.

Only perfect 28.8, that would take 43 minutes to download

No

That's a big girl.

Wh-what do those mammaries look like under the shirt?

4 u

sauce?

that's a huge bitch

That was in fact if I remember correctly, one of the "benefit" points of Firefox, its reduced size, faster download.

i wonder too

If people made usable websites, sure. I'd rather go back to DSL, tho.

Big titties

The max speed you could get is a little under 56kbps. The internet would be unusable at that speed.

Who is this titty monster

Nope. Put up with that shit for about a while 16-17 years ago.

I can't wait to upgrade to gigabit fiber from this 50/50 connection (all the little orange flags and markers on the road make me anxious).

Well considering every current webpage is designed with high speed internet access in mind, no because they would be literally unusable on dialup. Back when that was the standard, webpages might have taken up to a few minutes to load and even that would be annoying now that we're used to pretty much instant loading, but trying to load modern pages would take for fucking ever, probably end up in constant time out errors.

How do you even max a 50/50 connection?

I'm on 25 and the only time I even feel it is when I'm downloading something massive.

You can browse Sup Forums with 56kbps no problem, provided you don't open any images

Get a 100 inch monitor and stream hundreds of porn videos simultaneously at 4k resolution side by side.

You could probably use it with lynx, since that would get rid of most of the graphics that are bandwidth heavy. It would still take a hell of a long time, since webpages have so many scripts.

When I was on T-Mobile and I hit my "high-speed" data cap, I could browse Sup Forums on the "2g" connection.
It was actually a boldface lie. 2G should run from 50k-500k, in reality I got less than 10k with 7000ms of latency.

Nobody feels a difference when it comes to upload (4-5MB doesn't affect anything), but once people start streaming (Vue, Netflix 4K, etc) it can still become... not slow, but sub-optimal.

Yeah I didn't even consider 4k.

Also, households with more than one heavy internet user would probably want more bandwidth.