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when did you stop using dial up internet?
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99/2000ish i suspect? It was an Optus@Home cable connection when "netstats" was still used. It was sold as an "unlimited" plan, but really it was 10x the average download of your node.
For us, it really was unlimited because we were the only people on our node for ages. As more people connected, we started hitting the limit pretty regular.
You could also spy on your net neighbours usage because the cable modem logging (available via telnet and a default username and password) showed every connection on your node. Not sure of the technical side of this - I think because cable was in a daisy chain from node to properties and back?
Because we were early adopters, sending +++ATH0 in ping packets was super effective too heh.