Well, I don’t like paying for anything I suppose. I meant in relation to what one would have been paying for dialup anyway. IE the 56k dialup I had before cable was about $15 a month and cable was $25 a month, I wouldn’t call an increase in $10 a month to be prohibitively expensive. I certainly didn’t need to go from doing ok to rich to afford it.
I started Warcraft right when The Burning Crusade started.At the time I was on DSL
However I do remember dialup and American Online 
Hold on…just a little bit more…almost there…and…connected.
Mom:Honey I need you to get off the phone.
Me:Nooooooooooooooo!
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The 55k modem connection I had back in 2000/2001, I zoned in quicker in Everquest than people with the dsl/cable connections. Was always sort of amusing.
This made me shudder
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people had dial-up in 05? ![:face_with_raised_eyebrow:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/face_with_raised_eyebrow.png?v=6" ":face_with_raised_eyebrow:")
the last time I gamed on 56k was quake team fortress and starcraft.
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Hope DKP comes back so I can experience that too
Pfft, in my town there was one residential area across from the shopping center that had DSL, everyone else had dialup, my parents house just got DSL a few years ago, still no cable
You guys are silly or must be city dwellers
I’m looking for land to buy to build a house on and there are 2 websites I use frequent. Web soil survey https:// websoilsurvey .nrcs.usda.gov/app/WebSoilSurvey.aspx to see what kind of soil the lot I’m interested in has and the FCC broadband map https:// broadbandmap.fcc. gov/#/ to see if the lot can get broadband. If you are an antisocial neckbeard and want to live on 100+ acres in the woods somewhere good luck getting broadband (satellite doesn’t count, get outta here).
I think we had cable by 2001 or 2002. Well before WoW was released.
Nobody with an option played Classic on dialup. LOL. We had DSL across the country, and we even had cable internet being widely used by the time 2005 came around.
Nobody played Classic at any point without high speed internet.
The exception to this was rural places that STILL largely don’t have access to high speed internet without a satellite dish.
Didn’t play WoW in 2004. I was in my first year of post grad though…showing my age. And anyhow we had this freaking fast T1. I had a Sony Vaio and it was being used primarily for D2, BF1942, Morrowind, and Ravenshield.
I’d love to go back to the good ol’ days…alas.
I still have the computer i ran it on in the basement…i think its time to dust it off…
I’ve already downloaded AIM and Winamp. It’s gonna be poppin up in here!
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This is some kind of joke right?
That’s what I say when someone does your name
Dial up in 2004? Were u still using a pager then too??
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Have to put the new pc in storage and fire up the old sempron cpu, 1g ram, 8400gs with 512MB OF FURY (oldest card I have in parts bin).
May have an old bouncyball roller mouse and office minion keyboard around too.
Has discord been approved or do we need to find old backups of vent?
I had teamspeak before vent
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I didn’t have dial up then either. I didn’t even use dial up for Everquest.
It… wouldn’t matter. 56k connections (usually 51600 kilobits/sec, or about 6.5 kilobytes/sec) are more than enough to handle the bandwidth WoW needs. In retail, this is usually about 2-4 kilobytes / sec, maxing out at around 6-8 in raids. As for latency, sub-100ms times were quite common with 56k. You’d get far better than that at off-peak times.
So, a 56k would work fine. Even today.
For playing, that is. If new content is being transferred during gameplay or anything else is going on behind the scenes, then you’re dead in the water.
This is why I try to chime in, as much as I can, when people are completely confusing latency and low framerate. The two aren’t the same, nor are they mutually exclusive. You can suffer from one, the other, or both.
Any lag in classic still wasn’t due to bandwidth issues on the user end. It was either low framerates because toaster computer, or actual lag server/ISP side, because of the same reasons that cause server-side or ISP lag today.
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My Cisco teacher used to emphasize that we all needed better throughput not bandwidth
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