Date   : Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:25:39 +0000
From   : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: [OT] Who'da thought...

Jules Richardson wrote:

> (oh, re. 64Kb links - I worked for a company that had one in 1996, for over 
> 100 users. Even worse, it wasn't always-on, but some kind of pay-by-the-minute 
> deal, so they'd turn it on for a couple of hours in the morning and a couple 
> in the afternoon.

Heh... we had a large off-campus student house where some bright spark 
decided to create two offices.  An ISDN line was installed for two 
office PCs as supposedly they were only used a couple of times a day for 
timetable updates and email download.  We carefully explained to the 
manager that it was dial-on-demand so it would work each time a PC tried 
to connect to the main campus, and that they should be careful not to 
use it continuously because they'd get a surprising bill.  They had 
apoplexy when they got the second quarter's bill from BT, because said 
manager had left a PC running, polling our mail servers for new mail 
every 2 minutes for three months.  The bill had four or maybe five 
digits before the decimal point.

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Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
                                               Network Manager
                                               University of York