Multilink PPP worked well on an era-appropriate Windows XP PC, after progress using an earlier Windows ME box stalled.
  • Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    2 months ago

    I bet you could get slightly quicker speeds if they ran a pihole or something to block ads.

    This is kind of an interesting idea. I wonder if it’s feable to reuse all the old 56k modems?

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Even 20 years ago you needed ad blocking to make sites load a bit faster on dial-up. Now you would need no script and an image blocker too.

  • okwhateverdude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 months ago

    I remember doing this with NetZero accounts. You could trivially hack out the ads, and dial in-twice (if you had two phone lines), and do the bonding. Free slightly less shitty internets. Very useful for Napster and LimeWire back in the day.

  • Joe@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    38·
    2 months ago

    This was similar to a trick that a few smaller (less serious) hobby-ISPs did back in the days of 14.4k/28.8k modems to take advantage of the “reasonably priced” business plans for ISDN. They’d register multiple businesses at a single address to qualify for the plans, then balance new egress connections across the pool using squid and other magic. Fun times…

  • Broken@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    If 12 modems simultaneously handshake and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound? You’re damn right it does and probably shattered glass too.

  • altphoto@lemmy.todayEnglish
    31·
    2 months ago

    The ISPs got complaints about the phacking noise from their hubs. So they moved them to the jungle where they killed off all animals except for the def animals… And so that’s why we cannot communicate with animals.