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Re: NY ranks #1 in Internet b/w

  • From: Nipper, Arnold
  • Date: Mon Nov 05 11:05:12 2001 
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)