John, at 18:44 on Oct 31 1996, you wrote to Russell Brooks...

JP> I noticed in my logs that you called my system this morning. 
JP> Shame that it was only a 26400 connect. Then again, there is 
JP> a fair distance between us.

That's fairly irrelevant in these days of fibre optic between most (if not
all) major exchanges, where the digital signal is regenerated evry 50-80km.
 The real problem occurs between the exchange and the subscriber, where
distance really does make a vast difference to usable bandwidth.

Regards, Bill
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