bandwidth-related dinner conversation

[SteveDallas]

Just so you can all share in the excitement and humor.

Scene: Restaurant with Mrs. Dallas, the kidlets, and Mr. and Mrs. Friend.

Me: [pseudo-amusing anecdote about how I ended up with 2 sales reps from competing ISPs visiting my office at the same time when one showed up late and the other showed up early]

Everybody else: [murmured expressions of mild amusement, veiled intimations that they might be starting to be sorry they asked how my day was]

Me: [further anecdote about 3rd ISP salesdroid who told me they didn't offer anything faster than a T1 and if I needed more they could sell me two T1s and I could do some kind of load balancing on my own]

Mr. Friend: Wait, they don't have anything faster than a T1??

Mrs. Friend: You had more than that at your fraternity house in college! [This was > 5 years ago, so much more impressive than it would be today]

Mr. Friend: True, we had a T3.

Mrs. Dallas: Well yeah, but it was MIT--what do you expect?