Even early broadband could be hit or miss. I ordered disks directly from Ubuntu because I wasn’t confident in my Internets ability to download an entire disk iso in the early '00s.
I downloaded a 100mb video podcast in like '03 on a broadband connection and it took me at least a day
90s Internet was mostly dialup. 640MB of information took six or more hours to download.
Even early broadband could be hit or miss. I ordered disks directly from Ubuntu because I wasn’t confident in my Internets ability to download an entire disk iso in the early '00s.
I downloaded a 100mb video podcast in like '03 on a broadband connection and it took me at least a day
Same, I ordered a Ubuntu CD and others (Redhat or Debian(?)) on CDs, because we only had 64 kbit/s ISDN.