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Originally Posted by snowyskiesau
If it's 1-way satellite, then it's dialup as far as your uplink goes (from you out to the Internet). The download is via satellite at 512Kbps.
What ever it's called, it's a big step up from the 26kbps 'service'.
(Who remembers 1200 bps acoustic couplers?)
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I worked for IBM as an engineer in the late 70's/early 80's - and we used to link up to remote sites at 110 bps running "start/stop" protocol. Then came the big bang and we got 300 baud modems running SDLC. Now THAT was fast!
Eight inch diskettes also upped their storage capacity at that time too.... to 88kb.