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Re: NY ranks #1 in Internet b/w

  • From: Stephen Wolff
  • Date: Mon Nov 05 11:55:14 2001 
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" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected], Nigel Titley <[email protected]>, [email protected]
> 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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> 
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