And there's a "maximum service distance"
Well, having had a connection right next to the telcoms HQ building (less than 300m from it) and later a speedy almost-4Mbps when living "in the middle of nowhere" , we conclude that Belgium is a well-connected "area". Of course, it isn't too large either. Its "former colonial posessions" were over 80 times as large, but even then belgian engineers "connected" it ... mostly laying railroads, not TCP-IP cablings. But that was before 1960, so I guess the whole "networking" was more a person-to-person kind of network than a machine-to-machine-with-machines-in-between type of network. |
