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It was awful having to use AOL dialup in the UK. My parents used it (it was one of the few ISPs with freephone) so I was stuck with it. The problem was AOL rout
by naz 1y ago
It was awful having to use AOL dialup in the UK. My parents used it (it was one of the few ISPs with freephone) so I was stuck with it. The problem was AOL routed all traffic through Virginia. For someone in the UK that meant a minimum of ~130ms ping, ruining online games and making everything super slow
- mickeyp 1y ago130ms ping with dialup was actually quite low. I suffered far higher with my dialup and it was a local isp.
- giantrobot 1y agoFor games I would have done awful things for a ping that low on dial-up. More typical for me was over 200ms. I did everything I could to tweak MTU and modem settings but could never break the 200ms barrier (that I remember).
- nly 1y agoWhat? No Freeserve?
- pixelesque 1y agoFreeserve was free to buy, but you paid for it with the 0845 number (like with a lot of other ISPs in the late 90s) you had to dial.
- sixothree 1y agoRouting through virginia persisted for a lot of ISPs well into the broadband days. Whatever could be the reason for that...