Board:   [DoveNet] Internet Discussion
Subject: Re: The Internet
From:    poindexter FORTRAN
Date:    Fri Nov 06, 2026 20:30

@VIA: REALITY
-=> Boraxman wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 Bo> 20megabits?  Pffff, thats like a serial connection these days!

 Bo> I started my online experience with a 2400 baud modem and BBS's.  The
 Bo> biggest file I transfered was 800-900kb, and it took an hour.

 I downloaded a pirated copy of Microsoft C over 2400 baud, fell asleep
 on the transfer. Hours later it had completed and the sysop had broken
 into chat telling me to WAKE UP!

 Bo> Despite all this speed, people are still complaining of computers being
 Bo> slow. There is still awful latency in some places.

 I've done a lot of things in IT in my life, one area I never really
 focused on was networking. I did a little bit of Cisco work in the
 '90s, tempted now to do more. I have firewalls that can do SD-WAN, zero
 trust access, visual rules builders and more.

 We inherited a network with a ton of third-party tools, looking at
 these firewalls we could replace most of them with just the firewalls.




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