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Amazingly fast university internet

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archcommus

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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.
 
Many universities are major internet hubs, I would not be surprised if you had much more than that on tap under ideal conditions. I saw some amazing speeds from the information science lab at my school.
 
Just ran a speed test again and got 40 Mbps down/17 Mbps up. :Q Damn I'm going to miss this next year when I go back to regular cable internet.
 
Apparently even the speed test is largely underestimating. I just downloaded XP SP2 from Microsoft and achieved an astounding 9 MB/sec, or 72 Mbps. WHAT THE HELL. Is this even normal? I just want to understand how this is working. It says my school is on a 10 Gigabit backbone and that faculty and staff have access to Internet2 but students do not.
 
They will eventually clamp it down tighter than you know what.

I go to Texas Tech, and they have every port know to man blocked... They even block most legit music services. Although they are working on getting their own legal free music download service.
 
w00t 53kbps but hey what do you expect from Iraq where it has to go thru a proxy to a satelite, then gets shot to Quatar where it runs thru another proxy than a satelite shot to Germany where once again, another proxy, before it gets pumped under the ocean (I think) back to good ol USA 😀 And this is the fast time of day. It has literally taken me minutes to load an ATOT page but hey, it makes you appreciate cable internet when ya get back 🙂
 
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.
 
I had an Internet 2 connection when i went to college. It was ridiculously fast. I remember connecting to a person's computer at Cornell and the speeds were absolutely blazing 😱
 
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