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Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I bet you could get slightly quicker speeds if they ran a pihole or something to block ads.

This is kind of an interesting idea. I wonder if it's feable to reuse all the old 56k modems?

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago

Even 20 years ago you needed ad blocking to make sites load a bit faster on dial-up. Now you would need no script and an image blocker too.