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Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that
From: Rob Pickering <rob () pickering org>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:11:40 +0000
Wasn't the 56/64k thing a result of CAS (bit robbed) signalling which was a fudge AT&T did to transport signalling information in-band on T1s by stealing the low order bit for OOB signalling (it wasnt actually every low order bit, but meant you had to throw away every low order bit as CPE didn't know which ones were "corrupted" by the carrier). Proper ISDN was always 64kbit/s clear path with separate D channels carried OOB end to end, away from the B channel data. On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 11:57, Mark Andrews <marka () isc org> wrote:
The hardware support was 2B+D but you could definitely just use a single B. 56k vs 64k depended on where you where is the world and which style of ISDN the telco offered. -- Mark AndrewsOn 27 Jan 2020, at 22:32, Bryan Holloway <bryan () shout net> wrote: I didn't think one could get a single 'B' channel over ISDN ... but Icould be mistaken.In my early ISP days, ISDN was 2 x 64k (full-rate) 'B' channels and a16k '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, fora whopping 112k. Metered, came out to about $500/mo.Joly On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 6:26 PM Ben Cannon <ben () 6by7 net <mailto:ben () 6by7 net>> wrote:I started what became 6x7 with a 64k ISDN line. And 9600 baudmodems…in ’93 or so. (I was a child, in Jr High…) -Ben. -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC ben () 6by7 net <mailto:ben () 6by7 net>On Jan 24, 2020, at 3:21 PM, bzs () theworld com <mailto:bzs () theworld com> wrote: On January 24, 2020 at 08:55 aaron1 () gvtc com <mailto:aaron1 () 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 , lolPoint 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-upcustomersshared 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. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs () TheWorld com <mailto:bzs () theworld com> | http://www.TheWorld.com <http://www.theworld.com> Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*-- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -
-- -- Rob Pickering, rob () pickering org
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- RE: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Aaron Gould (Jan 25)
- Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Karl Auer (Jan 25)
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- Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that bzs (Jan 26)
- Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Bruce H McIntosh (Jan 27)
- Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Ben Cannon (Jan 28)
- Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Joly MacFie (Jan 25)
- Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Bryan Holloway (Jan 27)
- Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Saku Ytti (Jan 27)
- Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Mark Andrews (Jan 27)
- Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Rob Pickering (Jan 27)
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- Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Bryan Holloway (Jan 27)
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