Steam installer asked me if I got Dial Up!

[ShrimpBrime]

This installer dated 2010, looks like 10m Fiber was killer fast XD.

 

[R-T-B]

This installer dated 2010, looks like 10m Fiber was killer fast XD.

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Yep that there is the ancient firstgen installer.

 

[QuietBob]

Did the installation complete?
On a related note, Steam still runs fine in Win7 in spite of being unsupported since January 2024.

 

[Ruru]

Now that's an installer I haven't seen a while.

 

[Dr. Dro]

I don't think Steam actually ever updated this installer of theirs since the days it was green lol

I haven't downloaded Steam directly from Valve in a long time though, it just gets installed with Ninite whenever I reformat

 

[R-T-B]

I don't think Steam actually ever updated this installer of theirs since the days it was green lol

They did at some point. New ones don't ask those questions.

 

[ShrimpBrime]

Did the installation complete?
On a related note, Steam still runs fine in Win7 in spite of being unsupported since January 2024.

Nope, DSL is like waiting for a vortec to kick in. XD

 

[Bill_Bright]

Depending on which source you refer to, there appears to still be around 250.000 dial-up users in the US today. I note there are still over 60 million landline users too (I'm one of them - land line, not dial-up).

I suppose if you have a nice chunk of RAM and lots of disk space to create a sufficient buffer, even with dial-up, streaming would work fine - as long as you remember to disable call-waiting!

 

[Space Lynx]

I don't think Steam actually ever updated this installer of theirs since the days it was green lol

I haven't downloaded Steam directly from Valve in a long time though, it just gets installed with Ninite whenever I reformat

I do ninite too, lol makes life easier

 

[eidairaman1]

This installer dated 2010, looks like 10m Fiber was killer fast XD.

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When I worked for ma belle in 2013 there were people who still had 56K Dialup service and that's all they needed. Keep in mind 56K if the pair from the outlet to the nid, to the terminal, splice, crossbox, co/isp was conditioned like a vdsl service it would run circles around typical dialup setups because 1 jack is used and not hooked up to other jacks in the home where a phone could create an 'echo' (blue/white pair is typically daisy chained for POTS/Dial Tone for line 1, Orange White for Line 2)

ISDN, T1 is still a critical service even.

2003 my school had OC service and I dreamed of having T3 then...

Nope, DSL is like waiting for a vortec to kick in. XD

VDSL depending on if it was <=2640 ft and ideal pair conditions ran a 32Mbps profile in newer installations or 25Mbps in older, for triple play services.

Bonded pairs were for 45Mbps, at 2640ft or less, over 3000 ft for lesser speeds. Vectoring for 75Mbps, but I doubt AT&T pursued it because I quit them due to shitty management in 2014. In 2013/14 newer neighborhoods had BPON or GPON ONT fiber.

I know in 2019 people in older homes were getting fiber finally.

My Grandpas VDSL and before that ATM-ADSL never had bandwidth loss. Same with my now ex girlfriend's neighborhood which is under Windstream (formerly Alltel)

I remember playing mcm2 in 2001 and it was smooth sailing in mp ball tag matches

 

[DirtyDingusMcgee]

Windstream still has some copper stuff around here for folks off the beaten fiber path. DSL up to 200 down an 100 up, and Ethernet over Copper up to 100 down and 100 up.

Usually not cost effective, but you never know out here in wild west network territory. I use a lot of point-to-point wireless and Starlink out where the options are few.

 

[Dr. Dro]

Depending on which source you refer to, there appears to still be around 250.000 dial-up users in the US today. I note there are still over 60 million landline users too (I'm one of them - land line, not dial-up).

I suppose if you have a nice chunk of RAM and lots of disk space to create a sufficient buffer, even with dial-up, streaming would work fine - as long as you remember to disable call-waiting!

Don't forget to start downloading that 128k mp3 a few hours in advance, too!

 

[DirtyDingusMcgee]

Ah, the days of queuing up your Napster downloads before bed.