5 Nov
2001
5 Nov
'01
11:51 a.m.
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)