Stopped counting, started applying to smaller companies. Way less brutal.

Ngl that ranger station price is straight up robbery. Honestly my trick is just to make my hiking partner carry the can, problem solved. Or you could go ultralight and just sleep with your food like a raccoon buffet.

One small thing, a T1 was only 1.5 Mbps, so if you truly had 3 Mbps you probably had a bonded pair of them or a different setup. That actually makes the story worse, because bonded T1s were not cheap and you were still sharing a trickle with 11 people. The lost hours part rings true to me, we scheduled our whole day around uploads back then and just acted like that was how work worked.