Forum: Bryce


Subject: Some probs in the challenge - read on

AgentSmith opened this issue on Oct 02, 2002 ยท 35 posts


electroglyph posted Wed, 02 October 2002 at 4:56 PM

No, I meant 700 bytes per minute. It was when Netcom first installed 56K dialup connections. You could buy their "Premium" service and pay 10 bucks/ month more or stay on the old dialup number. The first dozen or so callers got 28.8. After that, you got bumped down into the 14.4s. Priority to the trunk went to the higher paying 56K members so friday nights you got your packets whenever everyone else left a gap. 700 bytes per minute was the slowest I ever saw without Netcom hanging up on me. They were bought out about a month after by Mindspring and upgraded. There are still a lot of people on local ISPs that service only one area code in the same boat.