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

[Ben Cannon <ben () 6by7 net>]

Right??  That’s in a customer’s office building too… I’ve got the same connection on my workstation of course.

I actually have another test that I don’t normally share.  It’s NOT fake.  I found out that the speedtest algorithm 
rounds to the nearest whole millisecond.  And that it will round DOWN below 400ns… 

A friend, being kind of sassy, said recently “Hey Ben, so like when you got the 10g, did you just like, download all of 
Netflix?”  And I had to pause and give a semi serious reply, where I said “Actually no… Because we’ve got a Netflix 
Openconnect in SF2 that has like 80g into the fabric, and we’ve got 100g into there, and even over the 10g to my 
desktop, that’s still faster than my SSD.  So no, I’m not going to be downloading all of Netflix.  The internet is my 
LAN, I already have…"

(It’s honestly all so cool that I wake up every day without an alarm clock, and *run* downstairs to do what I do.   
Best job in the world.)

-Ben Cannon
CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC 
ben () 6by7 net <mailto:ben () 6by7 net>




> On Jan 25, 2020, at 8:29 PM, Aaron Gould <aaron1 () gvtc com> wrote:
>
> I love the symmetric ~10 gig speed test to put it into perspective for how far we’ve come….also the 3 ms ping result. 
>  Ain’t it great
>  
> -Aaron
>  
> From: Ben Cannon [mailto:ben () 6by7 net <mailto:ben () 6by7 net>] 
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2020 5:27 PM
> To: bzs () theworld com <mailto:bzs () theworld com>
> Cc: Aaron Gould; NANOG Operators' Group
> Subject: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that
>  
> 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>
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> > 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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