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Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that
I didn't think one could get a single 'B' channel over ISDN ... but I
could be mistaken.
In my early ISP days, ISDN was 2 x 64k (full-rate) 'B' channels and a
16k 'D' channel for signaling.
On 1/26/20 5:58 AM, 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.
>
> Joly
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 6:26 PM Ben Cannon <ben at 6by7.net
> <mailto:ben at 6by7.net>> wrote:
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> I started what became 6x7 with a 64k ISDN line. Â And 9600 baud modemsâ?¦
>
> in â??93 or so. Â (I was a child, in Jr Highâ?¦)
>
> -Ben.
>
>
> -Ben Cannon
> CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC
> ben at 6by7.net <mailto:ben at 6by7.net>
>
>
>
>> On Jan 24, 2020, at 3:21 PM, bzs at theworld.com
>> <mailto:bzs at theworld.com> wrote:
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>> On January 24, 2020 at 08:55 aaron1 at gvtc.com
>> <mailto:aaron1 at 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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