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		acdha on Nov 17, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Getting a bit creepy I had a cable modem by 1998. Faster uplink speed than I have now, actually – saturated the 10MBps network in my house and it wasn't throttled in the pre-Napster, pre-port-filtered era.

FireBeyond on Nov 17, 2013 [–]

What cable companies were giving you 100mbps Internet in 1998?

acdha on Nov 18, 2013 | [–]

10Mbs, not 100. With Cox in San Diego could hit (IIRC) 16 Mbps per cable segment but at the time no cable modem had a 100Mb ethernet interface since that hardware was still expensive.

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