A Boca modem 28.8 and some years later we upgraded to a US Robotics 56K.
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Intel 9600EX! (on a 386 SX 20, iirc)
ZyXEL U-1496E which, if I recall correctly, was up to 19.2 Kbps.
2400... in 1993
1200 baud at the time 9600 was the norm. Dad didn't know that they would autonegotiate, and had a 1200 baud modem at work, so...
- I remember when we upgraded to 14400 it felt like light speed.
My first was 28.8 Hayes but was limited to 9800 cause of Telxon audiocopler. I also had a USR PCMCIA card that was 56k(? My memory is slipping cause of long covid) and somehow that was able to connect faster through Telxon audiocopler.
My family didn't get a modem until 1995, when we got a Mac Performa 5200 with a built-in 14.4 modem.
Some 14.4 kbps modem...I recall sometimes having to deal with BBSes that only supported 9600 bits per second. It was frustrating.
Now, on the desk in front of me, is a smartphone with 5G and wifi that'll do nearly 300 Mbps -- speedtest just said 274 Mbps. Let's see, that's...about 19000 times faster...
3Com U.S. Robotics. 56K* Professional Message Modem
It was the U.S. Robotics 56k PCI Winmodem that Dell was selling with their "Dimension XPS" Pentium II desktops. I later bought a proper 56k PCI modem off of a high school classmate so that I could download Debian packages without having to reboot into Windows first.