I just have to laugh when people complain about the connection speeds today! When I first started in computers (in the late 70's), you were lucky to get 110 baud! I ran a BBS in South Florida that used a 300 baud dial-up, and was overwhelmed when they came out with 1200 baud modems. The data center I worked in had 'high speed' dedicated lines and could pump data through at 4800 baud (and you needed a CSU/DSU and modem costing several thousand dollars). Of course, that was also back when 16K of memory was just over $100, and a 5 Megabyte hard drive (14" platter @ 300 RPM) was right around $6,000.
Cheers,
Brad
PS: For those of you too young to remember, baud is 'bits per second', and you need a minimum of 10 bits per byte
