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Campus Network Upgrade

Zenmervolt

Zenmervolt

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Life is good here at Pitt right now. I'm even willing to forgive the network guys for moving over to PPPoE from the normal DHCP they used last year (though I still think the choice for reccommended client sucked). On Sunday we switched over to a Gigabit backbone from the old 100 Megabit backbone. Now the OC-3 connection to the outside world is starting to really shine. Can't wait until they get everything set up for 100 Megabit ports in the dorm rooms. 😀

ZV
 
On the other end of the spectrum...

Here at The College of New Jersey we get anywhere between 500 bytes/sec to 1.5 kb/s during peak hours at the dorms. Of course with 7 T1's, you'd expect something just a tad faster.
 
and here at bridgewater college.. from what i understand by talking to the network admin here- we have a single T1 line shared by the entire college.... 1000 dollars a month, and the IT center is to cheap to pay for an upgrade. I see download speeds of 10kbps and peak useage times, and maybe 50kbps max. It sucks. i hate this school

edit= its a small school... i think right now only 500 computers are hooked up to the network. thats still way to many sharing one T1 though.
 
If you have 10 megabit ports now, doesn't that mean you are "limited" to a lofty 1.25MB/s? I connected to my school's network over a 2400 baud dial-up line. My, my how things have changed.
 
7 T1s is really pretty slow. Especially since your conversation to the server will only travel across a single T1, add to that the serial delay of a measley 1.5 megabit connectio and you're asking for poor performance.

That OC12 will fill up very quickly, hopefully the network guys have put some kind of packet shaper to kill morpheus and the other filesharing programs out there. Heck, I'm alway happy to see ATM gear getting ripped out of a campus.
 


<< and here at bridgewater college.. from what i understand by talking to the network admin here- we have a single T1 line shared by the entire college.... 1000 dollars a month, and the IT center is to cheap to pay for an upgrade. I see download speeds of 10kbps and peak useage times, and maybe 50kbps max. It sucks. i hate this school

edit= its a small school... i think right now only 500 computers are hooked up to the network. thats still way to many sharing one T1 though. >>



sounds like my school. Last year we had a single T1 for the whole campus (~500 comptuers), and it wasn't uncommon to see 1kbps downloads. This year they upgraded to 7 T1's for students(about 700 computers now) & 1 T1 for faculty/staff/computer labs. It's much faster, but our local 10mbps connections are really starting to suffer (and the 100Mbps backbone is getting hammered).
 


<< On the other end of the spectrum...

Here at The College of New Jersey we get anywhere between 500 bytes/sec to 1.5 kb/s during peak hours at the dorms. Of course with 7 T1's, you'd expect something just a tad faster. >>



Not when full-on 90% of the bandwidth is allocated to the academic subnet during the day. Head down to the CS labs in Holman and you'll get some better results. If you had the right connections you could get someone to set up a proxy in Green or at one of the Consultant workstations and route your traffic through that.

Did you get a kick out of the article in The Signal where the one kid talks about how he's psyched b/c the T3 will make TESS go faster?
Uhhh...no it won't...
 
just wait till your school starts limiting bandwidth. for some reason, UMD thinks it's a good idea. so download speeds have been getting slower. stupid school network people.
 
Wow, another TCNJ'er - poor soul 😉 Shoot me a PM or e-mail. I dont' really read The Signal, but that's pretty amusing if someone thought that the new T3's (assuming they happen) would make TESS faster.
 
here at the UW, everything is nice and fast, though they're pretty secretive about the equipment they use. for work, i get to tour the building that houses the servers in a week... 🙂 very secure from what i hear.
 


<< Wow, another TCNJ'er - poor soul 😉 Shoot me a PM or e-mail. I dont' really read The Signal, but that's pretty amusing if someone thought that the new T3's (assuming they happen) would make TESS faster. >>



TCNJ power 🙂 YGM.

You should read the Signal, if for nothing more than a good laugh at some of the stuff they print.
 


<< here at the UW, everything is nice and fast, though they're pretty secretive about the equipment they use. for work, i get to tour the building that houses the servers in a week... 🙂 very secure from what i hear. >>



Yeah, I've noticed that most places are VERY secerative about what equipment they use. What would be the reasoning behind this?
 
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