Last year I attended a small private college, they had pretty fast internet, like 8 Mbps down and 8 Mbps up, however it sucked because it used a proxy and every port known to man was blocked. This year I came to a large public university and was amazed by how nothing is blocked or restricted at all, and unlike what many people seem to experience at such schools, this did not result in a slow bogged-down network. Instead, my down speeds were even higher than at my last school, around 27 Mbps. However, upload was similar to at home, about 384 Kbps.
Well, I come back after Christmas break and do another test, and suddenly all tests show my upload capability at around 15 Mbps. 27 Mbps down and 15 Mbps up. Unbelievable.
What do you think they did to all of a sudden jack up upload speeds so high?
EDIT 3/21: I just tried downloading XP SP2 from Microsoft using a download manager and was able to achieve 9 MB/sec, or 72 Mbps. I'd really like to know how this works. I read that faculty at my university have access to Internet2 but students do not, and that the backbone for the school is 10 Gigabit.
Well, I come back after Christmas break and do another test, and suddenly all tests show my upload capability at around 15 Mbps. 27 Mbps down and 15 Mbps up. Unbelievable.
What do you think they did to all of a sudden jack up upload speeds so high?
EDIT 3/21: I just tried downloading XP SP2 from Microsoft using a download manager and was able to achieve 9 MB/sec, or 72 Mbps. I'd really like to know how this works. I read that faculty at my university have access to Internet2 but students do not, and that the backbone for the school is 10 Gigabit.
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