Tony Lundberg wrote in a message to Roger Dunk:

 RD> never matches the increase in net users. Just think how much it would
 RD> cost to lay a cable from Oz to the US say??? I can think only the

 TL> With Ausnet and Access One for example who apparently have a 
 TL> direct link with America, what does that mean exactly please?

An extermely slow link I would imagine. A few of the larger ISPs do, but
its usually not very fast. Basically they just use a normal overseas
telephone line 24hours/day, whereas AARNET has there own cable laid across
the Pacific.
It runs at about 6Mbps (if I recall correctly..).

 RD> Well, it just depends where you look. Somewhere like OzEmail is
 RD> running a 64k link to connect.com, and probably has 50 people on-line

 TL> Could you also please tell me what it means exactly when we
 TL> talk about a 64K link? 

 A 64000bps ISDN connection. Basically twice the speed of a 28.8k modem.

Cheers,
Roger
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