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Article #648Re: Boggle
From: Adam H. Kerman
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 09:05
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 09:05
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Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> wrote: >Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote: >>I wonder. Looking it up, DOCSIS 1.0 is from March, 1997. I have no idea >>what the state of cable broadband was prior to adoption of DOCSIS. >I think it was just proprietary stuff prior to whatever revision to docsis >was where it actually worked. 21st century had some sort of either zenith >or nortel stuff, and prime had this bogus downstream only system where you >needed an dialup account for upstream traffic. It was like an old data >over satellite system. That's very interesting. So why have satellite speeds never improved? When I moved in here, AT&T was reselling data via satellite, which made me want to dig out an old modem given the cost and speeds. >It was the late-ish 90s when I setup 56k dialup stuff at work with ISDN >lines then eventually got ISDN at home and made the leap to 128k, which >was a really big deal somehow. I used ISDN until maybe 5 years ago. There >was some incident where I ended up dialing out thousands of times in a >month when the RCN stopped unoficially supporting 2 B channel dialup into >the analog dialup pools with one account. Even Randy Suess never had ISDN. I don't understand how ISDN simply went through the modem pool. I thought you had your own circuit when there was ISDN on both ends.
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