Similar….

In ’93 I had a 2400bps modem and an $40/month ISP dialup account for 10 hours a month - my Mac IIci was zooming!

I quickly upgraded to 9600, then 14400, then 56k. I rocked the 56k till about 2003 - mind you all my email was over telnet/ssh/pine and websites in 2003 still worked somewhat well on 56k.

I tried getting ISDN in the late 90s, but at the time Bell Atlantic had horrible pricing for ISDN.

In those early days I remember setting up a download to start before bed so it could run all night, then wake up the morning to see my freshly downloaded 300KB file — assuming the phone line remained stable.

-John


On Jan 24, 2020, at 6:26 PM, Ben Cannon <ben@6by7.net> wrote:

I started what became 6x7 with a 64k ISDN line.   And 9600 baud modems…   

in ’93 or so.  (I was a child, in Jr High…)

-Ben.


-Ben Cannon
CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC 



On Jan 24, 2020, at 3:21 PM, bzs@theworld.com wrote:


On January 24, 2020 at 08:55 aaron1@gvtc.com (Aaron Gould) wrote:
Thanks Jared, When I reminisce with my boss he reminds me that this telco/ISP here initially started with a 56kbps internet uplink , lol

Point of History:

When we, The World, first began allowing the general public onto the
internet in October 1989 we actually had a (mildly shared*) T1
(1.544mbps) UUNET link. So not so bad for the time. Dial-up customers
shared a handful of 2400bps modems, we still have them.

* It was also fanned out of our office to a handful of Boston-area
customers who had 56kbps or 9600bps leased lines, not many.

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