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Re: NY ranks #1 in Internet b/w

  • From: steve wolff
  • Date: Mon Nov 05 09:49:01 2001 
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

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 or
> > > 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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