[HECnet] Here there be dragons...

[Dave Wade]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> On
> Behalf Of Paul Koning
> Sent: 05 September 2020 21:43
> To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
> Subject: Re: [HECnet] Here there be dragons...
> 
> 
> 
> > On Sep 5, 2020, at 4:13 PM, John Yaldwyn <jy at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > I live in a rural area here in New Zealand.
> >
> > The best internet on offer is 5Mbps/500kbps ADSL, slow satellite with
> horrendous latency, or rural broadband on 700 MHz LTE.
> 
> That's not so bad.
> 
> I remember when DEC's internal "Engineering Net" first extended to the UK
> (Reading, near London).  I'm pretty sure it wasn't what was then called a
> "high speed link" so most likely that was a 2400 baud link.  High speed,
for us,
> meant 9600 baud.

DECs internal Network seemed odd. In the late 1990's I worked in DEC
Warrington where we had a 64K link to Reading where much of the kit was. 
I got better access at home because I had 64K ISDN which dialled directly to
Reading....

Dave

> 
> Yes, a few organizations with big budgets, like ARPAnet, had a super fast
> backbone -- 56 kbps.
> 
> I remember how boggled my mind was when Ethernet first appeared, with
> 10 Mbps wires and network interface cards capable of running at a fair
> fraction of that speed.  DEUNA couldn't do wire rate, I'm pretty sure, but
it
> came respectably close.  QNA was even faster, when it worked.
> 
> 	paul
>