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by icedchai 1358 days ago
How long ago was this? 4 megabits would be pretty good... back in 1998!
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This _very_ much depended on where you are. I had symmetric 10Mbps at home in 1998 but when we moved to New Haven in 2008 Verizon couldn't deliver more than ISDN / T1 to large chunks the city (we literally could have used a WiFi antenna to hit their regional headquarters, too). There's so much deferred maintenance around the world.
True, true! I had a 3 megabit cable modem at home, back in 1998 (3 megabits down, 128kbits up, if I recall.)

My office at the time had dual T1's... a little over 3 megabits shared with roughly 500 people.

The last time I saw a place migrate the remote offices from a less than 10Mb/s network was around 2015. That same place replaced its mainframe at 2011 because of an enormous price hike.
2017