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


From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 13:42:17 +0200



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.

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