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Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that
- Subject: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that
- From: mark.tinka at seacom.mu (Mark Tinka)
- Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 13:42:17 +0200
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On 26/Jan/20 06:58, Joly MacFie wrote:
> IIRC that 64k was in fact 56k with 8k for overhead.Â
>
> 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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