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		Dylan16807 on July 29, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular... I don't think a Kindle would need broadband, though there probably weren't all that many dial-up connections plugged into wifi routers.

ghaff on July 29, 2021 [–]

Right. You don't need the bandwidth. But while it's presumably possible, also presumably almost no home users had WiFi before they got broadband.

tomjen3 on July 29, 2021 | [–]

We didn't but we did have a LAN. That was probably a special case though.

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