[geeks] rlogin for MacOS

[Rob]

It all depends. I started out with an old 1200 baud modem. Later managed a
2400 and then a 14.4k. Most BBS's at the time were 9600+ only due to file
transfers taking so long. 1200 buad was soooooooooo slow. I pity those who
actually had to use 300.

These days most ISP's won't accept less than 14.4k which is sad since
you'll give up trying to load any modern web page with less long before
you take up too much of their precious modem pool time.

- Rob

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, joshua d boyd wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:55:11AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > I did PPP over a 300 baud modem just to prove a coworker wrong, once. 8-)
> >
> > "You *CANT* do PPP dialup on a 300 baud modem!"
> >
> > "oh yeah?  watch me..."
> >
> > SO I dialed up, got a PPP connection going (god, it took forever..) and
> > used it to (slowly... very slowly) telnet into our shell server.
>
> Wimp.  Real men dig out 110baud modems for solving bets.  Had one of those
> once also, but I never used it.
>
> Actually, I'm kinda suprised that you were able to make the 300baud
> connection.  It wasn't that long ago that I couldn't get a 1200baud
> connection to be accepted by ISPs and BBSs.
>
> --
> Joshua D. Boyd
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