Why are you not just using dial up?
14 kilobytes is 56*2 kilobits. Even with compression, dial-up modems rarely hit their advertised max throughput.It'd probably be cheaper to spend $120 annually with an MVNO and tether internet connections as needed.
>>107497875s/cheaper/more efficientRoughly the same price, but you'll have much higher throughput and roughly the same latencies.
>>107497875>Even with compressionNobody is transmitting uncompressed data across the internet. Everything is JPEG and HEVC, etc. Text is compressed with GZIP or Brotli by default. Any attempt to compress dialup traffic will result is worse performance.
>>107497832it would take an entire day to load a modern web page
>>107498467If it used AVIF it would only take a few seconds. Webm related might look okay on a 480p CRT...Maybe
>>107497832How do they accelerate it to make it 10x faster than ordinary dial up?
>>107497832No ISP here offers dial up anymore.
>>107497875prepaid for a year is only $119.40but you would also need a landline, which will add another $20/month, so $240/year
>>107497832I grew up on dial-up. I'll pay the price for symmetric gigabit cable just to get DSL over dial-up.
>>107497832I tried looking for it, they don't offer it in my area anymore.Anyone got a youtube tutorial for starting my own dialup ISP in 2025?
>>107499017If you want to start a small ISP you're probably wasting your time if it's not a WISP
>>107497832I crunched the numbers in light of <https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1956499838809346279> (pic related) and came to the conclusion that if I had only 500 Kbit/sec my Internet connection would spend about half the day updating 300 MB phone apps and the rest would be spent uploading live backup data to cloud backupMeanwhile, v.90 is about 5 kilobytes/sec, which is more or less too low to download one operating system patch before the next one comes out, and that's assuming you have only one computer in the household and no phones and BitTorrent-grade error correction and partial fixups for interrupted downloads
>>107499525You couldn't have linked to a better source other than twitter? Like I het you were trying to make a point but this just feels spam-y man.
>>107499543not really, noespecially since I like his analysis, especially for the not-web parts of what could be made fasterit's kind of amazing he was able to make Quake run acceptably well on 2 KB/s with 250ms pings
>>1074995255EUR gives you 100GB per month at 20Mb/s
