A New Campground WiFi Record

No problem.

fj12ryder wrote:

TechWriter wrote:
Remember?

No.

Ah, that's right, you were once bitten by a link. Well then, don't click on this one.

TechWriter wrote:
Remember?

No.

Right. 300 Baud at first. We fought over the 1200 Naud modem to take home for the night.

You had 1200 baud? LUXURY!

I am one of those who wonder what normal person could use such speed for.
I am staying at my brother's, who lives in remote location and has not too many choices. He is using internet not only for music and movies, but occasionally he works from home as a programmer.
The average speed he has for his professional use is 2 to 5 MBps
Obviously we always want more, but 2 Mbps does the job.
Than using Wi-FI at several campground too often I have the speed "flying" in the morning only to die at night.

Great signal strength at my current campground, Woodland Park. However, their router is down, once you connect you receive no automatic IP address, or they have a single class C for the network and all the leases are taken. (200+ sites)

pianotuna wrote:
I'm old school I guess. I used to listen to radio plays from BBC at 1/4 dial up speeds on an analog cell phone. That's no longer possible.

And oh by the way--it was unlimited data and never throttled!

About 30 years ago I wrote a "cutting edge" terminal program for my Commodore 64. (All in 6502 machine language no less.) It became quite popular for accessing all the online Bulletin Boards (think Text-Based Internet) of the era . .




The max speed back then was 1200 baud (1.2 kbps). When I got the first ISDN connection in our block at 64 kbps, it was superb! But that was then.

Once in a while I do get nostalgic for those times (414 was my area code too), but in no way is the pull to the past strong enough for me to want slow or slower Internet speeds.

Been there, really been there . . . once was enough, Don.

On the other hand, the C64 is coming back.

Big Katuna wrote:
Campground WiFi is rarely more than 5 MBs and often slower.

In the past 21 campgrounds I've stayed, WiFi was available in 13 of the 21 campgrounds. In 6 of those 13, the speeds were 5 Mbps or greater.

That's about 30% with speeds > 5 Mbps. More than rarely.