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Article #1306Re: Serious Usenet Propagation Delay
From: Lyndon Nerenberg
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 00:00
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bm11455@themis.ag.gov.bc.ca (Jason Baker) writes:
>As I was taught, there are three levels of fibre-optic on the 'net.
>56k: One fibre. 56kbps. Kinda inadequate these days, but some people
> manage. :)
>T1: 27 56k lines. One cluster of fibres. Standard smaller linkage.
>T3: 24 T1's. An entire cable of fibre-optic. The "backbone" of the 'net.
I don't know what you're smoking, son, but I want you to send me a large
package of it for Xmas.
--lyndon
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106393,8073636ce75abed3 X-Google-Attributes: gid106393,public From: lyndon@orthanc.com (Lyndon Nerenberg) Subject: Re: Serious Usenet Propagation Delay Date: 1995/12/11 Message-ID: <4agp45$61j@multivac.orthanc.com> X-Deja-AN: 121548212 references: <mjwise-2911950919010001@port50.annex4.net.ubc.ca> <49lv63$qpp@berlin.infomatch.com> <mjwise-0112951010460001@port57.annex4.net.ubc.ca> <49v5op$mun@orca.osg.gov.bc.ca> organization: Orthanc Systems newsgroups: bc.bcnet