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		wpm on Dec 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X (2012) Slow networking? Most people’s networking hardware is still only as fast as the best PowerMac you could buy over 20 years ago. Only in the last few years has 2.5GbE become noticeably common.

spiderfarmer on Dec 26, 2024 [–]

20 years ago most people were on ISDN.

wpm on Dec 28, 2024 | [–]

And two years ago I was still on a 500Mbps download coax connection with my ISP, that has no bearing on the network hardware in my LAN.

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