5 Sep
2020
5 Sep
'20
11:26 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> On
Behalf Of Paul Koning
Sent: 05 September 2020 21:43
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Here there be dragons...
for us,
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,
meant 9600 baud.
DECs internal Network seemed odd. In the late 1990's I worked in DEC
Warrington where we had a 64K link to Reading where much of the kit was.
I got better access at home because I had 64K ISDN which dialled directly to
Reading....
Dave
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