Household Broadband And The Router On The Stairs
Always on, and the phone worked at the same time.
ADSL arrived with a microfilter on every phone socket and changed the household relationship with the internet permanently.
The first time a page loaded instantly was a genuine event. So was downloading something while someone else was on the phone.
The router lived in the hall by the master socket, because that is where the phone line came in, and the signal never reached the back bedroom.
Cost back then
£24.99 a month for 512kbps
Goes for now
Faster, and the router is still in the hall
