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Even doable on very long range ADSL, guess there are still some dialup users.


That's 6.5 megabits/second, plus overhead. Many DSL circuits exceed this, but not all.


Most DSL I’ve seen has been way slower than 6.5 megabits/s. If you’re that close to infrastructure you can likely get cable etc.

1.5megabits/s is the still common, but Starlink is taking over.


Not dialup. Just bad last-mile wiring, as far as I can tell.

Apparently such service is still somehow available; I found https://www.dialup4less.com with a web search. Sounds more like a novelty at this point. But "real" internet service still just doesn't work as well as it's supposed to in some places.


I struggle to get close to 6mbps on good days... some of us are still stuck on DSL monopolies.


My current AirBnB has only cellular backed WiFi which would struggle to download 250MB at peak times.




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