Yes, I remember in the early days having to set my ethernet adapter to half duplex just to get it to finish downloading. How much of this was just congestion due to everyone wanting to a look at the sim, who knows. I don’t need to do this anymore… good job because I’d always forget to set it back and wonder why a 10mb file took 30 mins!
In other news, City Fibre (UK) (and another network operator aside from BT), have just starting laying full fibre in my area. wallet is ready