<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Right?? That’s in a customer’s office building too… I’ve got the same connection on my workstation of course.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I actually have another test that I don’t normally share. It’s NOT fake. I found out that the speedtest algorithm rounds to the nearest whole millisecond. And that it will round DOWN below 400ns… <br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A friend, being kind of sassy, said recently “Hey Ben, so like when you got the 10g, did you just like, download all of Netflix?” And I had to pause and give a semi serious reply, where I said “Actually no… Because we’ve got a Netflix Openconnect in SF2 that has like 80g into the fabric, and we’ve got 100g into there, and even over the 10g to my desktop, that’s still faster than my SSD. So no, I’m not going to be downloading all of Netflix. The internet is my LAN, I already have…"</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(It’s honestly all so cool that I wake up every day without an alarm clock, and *run* downstairs to do what I do. Best job in the world.)</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 25, 2020, at 8:29 PM, Aaron Gould <<a href="mailto:aaron1@gvtc.com" class="">aaron1@gvtc.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 84, 106);" class="">I love the symmetric ~10 gig speed test to put it into perspective for how far we’ve come….also the 3 ms ping result. Ain’t it great<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 84, 106);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 84, 106);" class="">-Aaron<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 84, 106);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ben Cannon [<a href="mailto:ben@6by7.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">mailto:ben@6by7.net</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, January 24, 2020 5:27 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:bzs@theworld.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">bzs@theworld.com</a><br class=""><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Aaron Gould; NANOG Operators' Group<br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">I started what became 6x7 with a 64k ISDN line. And 9600 baud modems… <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">in ’93 or so. (I was a child, in Jr High…)<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">-Ben.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">-Ben Cannon<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:ben@6by7.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">ben@6by7.net</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""><span id="cid:image001.png@01D5D3CE.DE5A20F0"><image001.png></span></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class="" type="cite"><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">On Jan 24, 2020, at 3:21 PM,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:bzs@theworld.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">bzs@theworld.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><br class="">On January 24, 2020 at 08:55<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:aaron1@gvtc.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">aaron1@gvtc.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Aaron Gould) wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Thanks Jared, When I reminisce with my boss he reminds me that this telco/ISP here initially started with a 56kbps internet uplink , lol<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><br class="">Point of History:<br class=""><br class="">When we, The World, first began allowing the general public onto the<br class="">internet in October 1989 we actually had a (mildly shared*) T1<br class="">(1.544mbps) UUNET link. So not so bad for the time. Dial-up customers<br class="">shared a handful of 2400bps modems, we still have them.<br class=""><br class="">* It was also fanned out of our office to a handful of Boston-area<br class="">customers who had 56kbps or 9600bps leased lines, not many.<br class=""><br class="">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""> -Barry Shein<br class=""><br class="">Software Tool & Die |<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:bzs@theworld.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">bzs@TheWorld.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> |<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.theworld.com/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://www.TheWorld.com</a><br class="">Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD<br class="">The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>