[44101] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NY ranks #1 in Internet b/w
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (steve wolff)
Mon Nov 5 09:46:44 2001
From: steve wolff <swolff@cisco.com>
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To: Nigel Titley <nigel@titley.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 09:44:15 -0500
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Few folks I guess recall the dial-up line that ran westward from Beijing =
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Karlsruhe that functioned in the early-to-mid '80s. It ran at 300 baud. =
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good days. -s
On Saturday 03 November 2001 16:55, Nigel Titley wrote:
> Rafi Sadowsky wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> > > On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Nipper, Arnold wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > Hm, I'm still waiting to witness a traceroute from Europe to Asia o=
r
> > > the Pacific that doesn't go over the US for the first time.
>
> Well, back in 1995 I connected a Japanese internet customer (the name
> escapes me) to BTnet in the UK. The connection method was frame relay
> and so at the IP layer there was one hop between London and Tokyo....
>
> Nigel
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