Hah, 56k, the sound of the future at lightspeed.
I miss my 300 baud acoustic coupler, strapping the the telephone handset in time for a successful connection to your coupler was a true challenge (manually dialing the long oversea number while using your corn-flakes whistle was too -  2600 anybody, SS9 maybe? *lol*).
I still have that thing and I very well remember the only point in time when I was faster than the transmission line with typing