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

[Mark Andrews <marka () isc org>]

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 Andrews

> On 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 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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