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"Bandwidth improvements

At present all IP communications between IoA/RGO and the rest of the world go down a rather slow (64Kb/sec) link. This should improve substantially when it is replaced with a GBN link, and to most of Cambridge the bandwidth will probably become 1-2Mb/sec. For comparison, the basic ethernet bandwidth is 10Mb/sec. The timescale is unclear, but sometime in 1992 is expected. The bandwidth of the national backbone facilities is of the order of 1Mb/sec, but of course this is shared with many institutions in a manner hard to predict or assess."

how did we cope?!