db> On Oct 10, 1996 at 16:48, Jeff Green of 3:711/934.20 wrote:

 DM>> Surprisingly, it's been better than most days. I had a record
 DM>> transfer rate from the USA, 7.5Kbps (ISDN - in case you're
 DM>> wondering),
 JG>
 JG> ISDN!! Bastard!

 db> Remember, chances are that means he's subject to Telstra's pricing
 db> regime and their "service guarantees" (ahem).  ;-)  I've
just got to
 db> learn to live with our hunky E3{*} microwave.

 db> {*} 34Mbps.  ;-)

my new employer is quite enlightened, we have a share of an mci 64k line to
a server in ireland, thence by a 256k line to boston, you can usually get
about 6k out of it for most of the day - both the europeans and the yanks
are asleep.

most of the internal stuff is done by vines, with drives in the us and
ireland mapped directly onto your machine, but thats quite slow. they are
moving though to an intranet with internal web pages providing
communication.

it does seem odd though dialling in from home to get my mail from ozemail
via our office in north sydney, ireland, boston, and back to north sydney,
its nearly as fast as dialling in directly though.

keith

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