[pixl97]

We're going to need a PTSD trigger warning on this thread if we keep this up.

Did residential dial up support from 95-00, and got to experience all those disasters.

Another fun one is when you serve at the edge of two different phone companies and they didn't have enough cross connect service between the two for all the long running dial up connections. Yea, your modem banks aren't full, but your customers are getting busy signals.

[maltalex]

That still happens on the internet, just in a different layer - between Autonomous Systems: You’re a content provider serving at the edge of two different providers and they didn’t have enough cross connect between the two for all the required bandwidth. Yea, your connection and servers are underutilized, but customers are getting timeouts.

[kstrauser]

Oh lawdy. I can't say that surprises me.