<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sebst</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve built something like that from a bunch of used hardware in my teens. DSL connections were just available (in Germany) and came with a data flat rate. I was in the lucky position that I could convince my parents to get such a contract.&lt;p&gt;A friend of mine, who could not get a DSL connections because back then he lived in an uncovered area, could at least get a telephone &amp;quot;flat rate&amp;quot; for free telephone calls on Sundays.&lt;p&gt;So, he dialed in my Pentium 133 server and used my DSL connection behind a NAT every Sunday.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Build your own dial-up ISP in 2019</title><url>https://dogemicrosystems.ca/wiki/Build_you_own_dial_up_ISP_in_2019</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cure</author><text>I operated something like this around 2005 in a big hotel building (~400 bedrooms and various offices) with a dinky internet connection and no wifi yet (very thick walls, up in the mountains, limited budgets...).&lt;p&gt;So I built a dial-up pool on an internal number (this place had its own PBX with ~500 phone lines) hooked to a Debian box, served by a bunch of USR Courier modems. Good times :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Build your own dial-up ISP in 2019</title><url>https://dogemicrosystems.ca/wiki/Build_you_own_dial_up_ISP_in_2019</url></story>