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		girvo 28 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Quake Engine Indicators We used to play these games on dial-up where ~300ms pings were pretty common. Moving to a cable connection in ~2001 was shocking in comparison!

thenthenthen 27 days ago [–]

Funny, my first cable connection was waaay worse than dailup. Abysmal pings and speeds maxing out around 3kb/sec. It took a few years to reach 32kb/sec which felt insane.

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