[44108] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NY ranks #1 in Internet b/w
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Wolff)
Mon Nov 5 11:53:15 2001
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 08:51:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Stephen Wolff <swolff@cisco.com>
To: "Nipper, Arnold" <arnold@nipper.de>
Cc: Nigel Titley <nigel@titley.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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I cheerfully stand corrected. Good thing mine's not the only memory at
work here... -s
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Nipper, Arnold wrote:
> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 17:02:14 +0100
> From: "Nipper, Arnold" <arnold@nipper.de>
> To: swolff@cisco.com, Nigel Titley <nigel@titley.com>, nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: NY ranks #1 in Internet b/w
>
> 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)
>
>
>
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