Amazingly fast university internet

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Originally posted by: Fraggable
A few universities around Cincinnati are on a free fiber loop owned by P&G. UC (University of Cincinnati) manages the loop and has unlimited access to bandwidth to teh intarweb. When I worked there we had access to unbelievable download speeds, I got SP2 (something like 250MB) in about 60 seconds flat.

Maybe yours has a similar situation.

Sounds very possible. I got SP2 in roughly 30 seconds at the speed I was going at. I feel like it should have something to do with our participation in I2, however it says students use a different connection so it really surprises me. I guess a vanilla Internet 10 Gigabit backbone can supply these kinds of speeds on its own?

This isn't too much of an e-penis thread, heh, more or less I was so amazed I had to tell someone, and I was curious as to how our setup could be.

Originally posted by: makken
back when I was living in the dorms, I was limited by my ethernet line (100mbps )

Yeah I was nearing that situation myself!