In my first job, I was developing software for driving ISDN 30B+D trunks on E1, while at home I could only run a modem at 1200/75 or 300/300. 2Mbps was beyond a dream. The peak of luxury.

Remarkable what we can achieve now - in both the leased lines and at home.

I agree that fibre has provided us with faster connections, but like some replies reflect, that is not always the case.
T1 was slow [by todays standards] but it was more consistent as there was less users on the network and less congestion.
I have BT Infinity [80/20], but a lot of the country is still using the old ADSL lines.

Back in 2000, one of my colleagues had one of our 64k leased lines at home. He also managed to get on Demon's ADSL trial - which was, in terms of sync speed, much faster (2Mbps down and 256kbps up). Demon had a few issues but once he was connected, he felt that the leased line service (which had uncontended bandwidth) was still better than the Demon service.

Things have certainly come a long way since then - at least for most of us.

My current VDSL2 connection does drop out every few weeks. That's something that never happened when I had a leased line. Except when some BT engineer managed to sever the cables accidentally

In reply to a post by WWWombat:

In my first job, I was developing software for driving ISDN 30B+D trunks on E1

Did you ever use Catapult test equipment?

In reply to a post by caffn8me:

Back in 2000, one of my colleagues had one of our 64k leased lines at home. He also managed to get on Demon's ADSL trial - which was, in terms of sync speed, much faster (2Mbps down and 256kbps up). Demon had a few issues but once he was connected, he felt that the leased line service (which had uncontended bandwidth) was still better than the Demon service.

Things have certainly come a long way since then - at least for most of us.

My current VDSL2 connection does drop out every few weeks. That's something that never happened when I had a leased line. Except when some BT engineer managed to sever the cables accidentally

T1 to me is a real blast from the past, as I am 80 next year and have been building PC`s and other electronic equipment since the early 1970`s.
Still build and test them but mainly to keep my brain active, and keep up with modern tech.

In reply to a post by caffn8me:

Did you ever use Catapult test equipment?

I don't recognise the name.

TBH, I don't recall exactly what we used back that far, but I suspect they were Tektronix boxes. Guarded jealously by the hardware engineers...