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

[Bryan Holloway <bryan () shout net>]

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 () 6by7 net 
> <mailto:ben () 6by7 net>> wrote:
>
>     I started what became 6x7 with a 64k ISDN line.   And 9600 baud modems…
>
>     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 , 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.
> >
> >     -- 
> >            -Barry Shein
> >
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