[44105] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NY ranks #1 in Internet b/w
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nipper, Arnold)
Mon Nov 5 11:02:53 2001
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From: "Nipper, Arnold" <arnold@nipper.de>
To: <swolff@cisco.com>, "Nigel Titley" <nigel@titley.com>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 17:02:14 +0100
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Steve Wolff wrote:
> Few folks I guess recall the dial-up line that ran westward from Beijing
to
> Karlsruhe that functioned in the early-to-mid '80s. It ran at 300 baud.
On
> good days. -s
It was an X.25 dial-up running at 9.6 kbit/s and was turned down 94/95 when
IP connectivity to CN was well established.
-- Arnold (former co-worker of Prof. Zorn)
