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Dear lord my region was blessed with cable internet in 1995. Wasn't fast but it was really affordable and the latency was better than dial up. Though once it got crowded during peak hours it crumbled to a halt.
In 1998, my hometown (>100K population) had an uplink of 2 bonded USR modems over a pair of dedicated phone lines to the regional capital about 100km away. This uplink fed two ISPs with 5 and 4 dial-up phone lines. The smaller one bought a DirecPC card to feed its dial-up clients and advertised it as "high-speed internet access".
I feel like I remember seeing a 112k modem with 2 phone lines in a magazine once. Yep. It was made by Diamond, who also made some early graphics cards.
That was mentioned in the article, the Shotgun. It required two phone lines and for many ISPs two accounts. For that price you could have gotten an ISDN line and has better performance even with similar bandwidth.
In 1998, my hometown (>100K population) had an uplink of 2 bonded USR modems over a pair of dedicated phone lines to the regional capital about 100km away. This uplink fed two ISPs with 5 and 4 dial-up phone lines. The smaller one bought a DirecPC card to feed its dial-up clients and advertised it as "high-speed internet access".
At that time, without SSL, a caching proxy server would bring a huge speed improvement.
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The key is to use a non-compressed codec such as G.711u/a-law, and disable echo and silence suppression. I can regularly get 28.8k-33.6k carrier speeds across the US when using an ITSP/VoIP provider and my modems connected to Grandstream/Linksys/Cisco analog telephone adapters.
I have to ask, why are you regularly using dialup over VoIP across the US?
Dreamcast Quake 2 matches were one of the most popular uses last I checked
Dear lord my region was blessed with cable internet in 1995. Wasn't fast but it was really affordable and the latency was better than dial up. Though once it got crowded during peak hours it crumbled to a halt.