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[-] dan@upvote.au 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I remember using ICMP data to bypass my high school's firewall. TCP and UDP were very locked down, but they allowed pings. It was slow though - I think I managed to get a few KB per sec. Maybe there's faster/fancier firewall bypass methods these days. This was back in the 2000s when an entire school would have a single OC-1 fiber connection.

[-] ripcord@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

155mbps Telco trunk line for a school? Nicer school than I went to.

[-] dan@upvote.au 5 points 1 year ago

Around 50Mbps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Carrier_transmission_rates#OC-1

I only had dialup at the time, and the fastest home broadband available was 1.5Mbps ADSL, so it was pretty fancy!

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