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Forum problems--November 12, 2021?
- Thread starter trlvn
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I have had several similar problems over the course of the last few months. Worse just lately. I did a Domain drill and it showed the server where our forum is hosted as the bottle neck. That can't be easily fixed. At most a complaint from @Janger et al. But we would probably have to move our business to really fix it. That would be a HUGE PIA to Josh. My vote is to just learn to live with it.
I gather you never used a 300 baud unit. I remember when 9600 and then 14.4 were like a strike of blue lightning!
I think the main problem is cloud storage, streaming, and watching online tv & movies.
I think my first foray was a 9.6k,,,,,, now I feel old(er)lol
I can remember when Shaw bought out Cadvision and dropped landline internet accesses, I was really PO'd.
My first foray was a totally manual (no modem) dial-up connection to ARPANET at the university of Stanford in the late 70s. ARPANET was the internets predecessor with only university and military people participating. Shortly thereafter public access was granted through the multi university backbone that then became the earliest version of the internet as we know it and I got a Compuserve membership to join in for non-research purposes - mostly early software sharing. That connection was long distance dial up to Chicago using a 300 baud modem. My member number was 2 digits long. That long distance bill was the first of many times my wife threatened to divorce me.