5 Sep
2020
5 Sep
'20
10:43 p.m.
On Sep 5, 2020, at 4:13 PM, John Yaldwyn <jy at
xtra.co.nz> wrote:
Hi Mike,
I live in a rural area here in New Zealand.
The best internet on offer is 5Mbps/500kbps ADSL, slow satellite with horrendous latency,
or rural broadband on 700 MHz LTE.
That's not so bad.
I remember when DEC's internal "Engineering Net" first extended to the UK
(Reading, near London). I'm pretty sure it wasn't what was then called a
"high speed link" so most likely that was a 2400 baud link. High speed, for us,
meant 9600 baud.
Yes, a few organizations with big budgets, like ARPAnet, had a super fast backbone -- 56
kbps.
I remember how boggled my mind was when Ethernet first appeared, with 10 Mbps wires and
network interface cards capable of running at a fair fraction of that speed. DEUNA
couldn't do wire rate, I'm pretty sure, but it came respectably close. QNA was
even faster, when it worked.
paul