[nobleach]

Think about that for a second. 45Mbps. It sounded so huge. Even your low tier 25 dollar a month cable modem packages can outdo that. (Now they're nowhere near as stable, and they're definitely not synchronous) But in this age of Gigabit being pretty common, it's fun to remember a time when that was so far out of our reach. Some kid on his dorm room ethernet sharing his entire collection... and me on my brand new ADSL modem downloading song by song, minute by minute.

[cm2187]

In fact my home was one of the first home in France to get a DSL connection. The modem could do 8mbit, but the phone company capped it at 500kbit. The problem is that though the connection from the exchange to the home was DSL, the infrastructure behind was the same infrastructure they used for 56k connections. So you ended up with a DSL connection that was about the same speed than a 56k modem...

And now I am complaining about having only 100mbit upload.