Historical Speeds

I'm trying to find what the most commonly offered internet speeds (residential) were over the years before fibre. I can't remember the upload speeds of when broadband was first introduced.

56K / 33.6K
512K / ?
1 / ?
2 / ?
8 / 448K
24 / 1
24 / 2.5
38 / 9.5
76 / 19

I know cable speeds from Blueyonder/Telewest were very different to ADSL, but I never used them.

News archive goes back to 2000 and this search http://www.thinkbroadband.com/archive/24.html?q=uplo... will give you lots of stuff to pull together

A sign of how things have changed is a speed test roundup from 2004
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/1664-top-10-faste...

No doubt it could found easily enough using Google, but the upload for 512kbps/ 1Mbits and 2Mbits ADSL from BT at the beginning was 256kbps.

Thanks. Surprisingly a lot higher than I expected.

Upload speeds were never widely advertised back then (or even now), and trying to search for definitive figures from that period of time proved more difficult than I thought. I did come across this list of bit rates / modems though.

I remember when the fastest that CompuServe offered was 9600.

In reply to a post by Andrue:

I remember when the fastest that CompuServe offered was 9600.

I remember 1200 / 600 was the fastest LOL

Mum wasn't too happy with the phone bill

Ah the good old BBS days.

Paul

I had a company phone line and when the US arm of CIS rolled out 19200 I used to dial New York

But surprisingly the UK got 36k first.

Anyone remember getting online at 33k with AOL?

In reply to a post by Andrue:

I had a company phone line and when the US arm of CIS rolled out 19200 I used to dial New York

But surprisingly the UK got 36k first.

It makes a change us getting something before the US, I bet they had a hissy fit about that

Paul

I remember been on an isp that offered unlimited use but would auto disconnect you after an hour, a friend of mine coded an app which auto redialed.