Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

On 26/Jan/20 06:58, Joly MacFie wrote:

IIRC that 64k was in fact 56k with 8k for overhead. 

I had one, and it would kick in a second channel if you pushed it, for a whopping 112k. Metered, came out to about $500/mo.

My first ISDN experience was in Swaziland, 2003. There weren't many countries in Africa that offered it, actually. As tiny as Swaziland was, I was surprised they did. I just liked it because the dial-up was instant and it didn't "sing the modem song" :-). Mark.