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100KB/s - is that good for a college considering all the comps...?

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RSI

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Just to test the connection I DL some stuff and get 100KB/s... this any good for a college?

-RSI
 
That is very good. Here at Pittsburgh I usually average 30-40 KB/s, with 5-10 KB/s during heavy use hours, and 100-200 KB/s if there is no-one else using the thing. FWIW, we have an OC3 coming into campus that we share with Carnagie Mellon University next door.

Zenmervolt
 
Hey Zemmer,

Yeah that should be pretty good. I wonder what we're on here. Most likely a T1 or T3 not shared with anyone but our campus. Well, I DLed one prog at 104KB/s and another at 25KB/s. The 100 one was at a download.com selected server, while the other was at a 'non'popular website.

-RSI
 
I worked for WVU before becomming a Network Administrator for a private corporation. We capped our students (and still do). You are probably under a cap, but still that is very good.
 
Thats sucks compared to Texas A&M. We get from 400-1000 KB/sec yes a meg a sec.

My Cable modem gets 120 KB/s
 


<< Thats sucks compared to Texas A&M. We get from 400-1000 KB/sec yes a meg a sec.

My Cable modem gets 120 KB/s >>

Wow, that's fast! Lucky you! But, you see.. there's also the small thing that it DOESN'T MATTER! 😀 I'm here now and again to either

A) Do an assignment
B) Do a plethora of assignments
C) Kill time after going to the gym and no classes to go to
D) Just check email

So really, throughput is kinda meaningless. All the pages load really fast, so that's perfect. Now if I had a good comp and this connection at home... It'd be a different story and I'd soon be complaining "only 200KB/s? WTF!?!?" .. 😛

-RSI
 
at my college in the UK it varies from 150k at fairly heavy use times. Usually its at 240k but can go up as high as 600k. nice!
 
This is what I get.

Test running..........
** Speed 5877(down)/7575(up) kbps **
(At least 117 times faster than a 56k modem)
Finish.

very nice for large downloads
 
at UVA my downloads hit as high as 500kb/s, uploads around 250. this is more than good enough unfortunately it is only a 10MBps lan = slow file sharing
 
id say for a college with many puters on the same connection, you are doing really good. Is this at peak usage tho or at nite? With my cable i really lucked out, getting 400-900kb/s depending on the site i go to, tho most sites i max out at around 130-190kb/s
 
100mbs Lan + (3T1s/350 students) = FAST!!

We have 3 T1 connections divided between 350 students...I get some fast connections.
 
Vanier gets about 50kb/s for the older computer labs, and nearly 1MB/sec (yes, megaBYTES) in the newer ones. Not to mention that everything is cached by the proxy so that if one person downloads something, everyone can download it at much higher speed. Sort of like temporary internet files but a lot better.
 
This is what I just got from DSLreports... not too shabby


** Speed 5004(down)/4076(up) kbps **
(At least 100 times faster than a 56k modem)
Finish.
 


<< 100mbs Lan + (3T1s/350 students) = FAST!!

We have 3 T1 connections divided between 350 students...I get some fast connections. >>



Dude, check again there. 3 t1 connections MAX out at 4.5Mbits/second total bandwidth(3*1.5Mbit). Divide that between 350 students and you're getting a 12.8 kbps connection. That's slower than a 14.4 modem. That translates into maximum download speed of about 1 kilobyte/second. Are you sure you're not talking about t3 lines? those are 45Mbits/second each which if you have 3 and divide that, you'll get something like 300kbps...which seems more reasonable. Maybe my math is wrong as no one else caught this.

1.5Mbits/second(one t1)* 3t1 lines = 4.5 Mbits/sec
4.5Mbits is about 4500 kbits
4500kbits/350 students = about 12.8kbps.
12.8/8bits in a byte = 1.6Kbytes/second Maximum.
 
yoda:

Actually in all likelyhood it should never get that slow, because the probability of everybody downloading something at the exact time is very very small. This basis is used for many things (such as the TDMA protocol for mobile phones). Airlines also overbook planes because statistically not everybody is going to show up.

That said 3 T1s over 350 people is probably a little on the low side.
 
When I bring my laptop to University of Nebraska at Omaha and download stuff from my friend's personal FTP at UN of Lincoln, I've hit as high as 900 KB/s. 😀
 


<< yoda:

Actually in all likelyhood it should never get that slow, because the probability of everybody downloading something at the exact time is very very small. This basis is used for many things (such as the TDMA protocol for mobile phones). Airlines also overbook planes because statistically not everybody is going to show up.

That said 3 T1s over 350 people is probably a little on the low side. >>



You defnitely have a valid point here and I don't imagine he's getting anywhere near like 1K/s, my point is that I think he's got t3s instead of t1s and I'm thinking he should check it out. Even if only 50 people are downloading stuff, that's maybe twice 56k modem speed. if only 25, let's say it's about 4 times modem speed. 12 people, maybe 8 times modem speed? If only 6 people are using it, then he's at DSL line speeds. As for network usage...my dormitory last year used on average, at any given moment, around 60 percent of it's bandwidth and all accounts for the building were capped at 10Mbps(I heard rumors that it was just cheap networking hardware tho and there was no cap). So that's the number I usually use for estimating...but that's just me. I still think he's on t3s and not t1s tho.
 
hahaha here at MSU, we can get 8mb/sec from the network to my ftp, and like 800kb/sec upload to my friend on a cable modem. I can download from websites on average, about 300-500k/sec
 
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