When I was your age, we had to transport our TCP packets by hand, uphill, both ways

I’m back in Mpls, surfing the web from my parents’ house for the weekend. “Man, this internet connection is crazy slow,” I think. So I run the Speakeasy speed test to the Chicago server, expecting a result of around 200 kbps. And yet,

1.3 Mb downstream, .7 Mb upstream.

Methinks my frame of reference has changed a bit.