Stop complaining about bandwidth caps: owned

[HyTekJosh]

Are there any sites that list / compare schools and their network infrastructures / use policies?

 

[GT1999]

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: Geekish Thoughts

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: BornStar18
I remember reading his letter and being absolutely floored by the stupidity. His biggest complaint shouldn't be about the LAN, he should be more worried about adding another T3 or starting to upgrade to OC-3s (which I think has been a long time in coming). The university has no need for GbE; even the most complex of networked computer games will run easily on 10Mb. I'm sure the next day he went out and complained about all of the extra spending that is raising his tuition.

All of the dorms are on one t3 (I think). The rest of the computers (labs, faculty, staff, etc) are on the other lines.

That's sad.. we have a 110Mbps frac oc3 at ISU, and I'd imagine Purdue is much much bigger.

One T3 (or OC3) is about 45Mbps

Umm, no. A DS3 is 45Mbps, and an OC3 is 155Mbps, as stated by spidey07 earlier is thread. Anything less than the full bandwidth of one of those feeds is considered fractional.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: shady06
i love how the second letter mentions that the proice for internet access is so reasonable but does not take inot consideration the money that is made by charging outrageous housing and food fees

Maximum housing cost at Purdue is $7,620 for the year. Therefore, you pay roughly $847 per month and that includes all utilities, housing close to campus, and 20 meals per week. This, of course, is for the nicest on campus housing. Housing can be had as low as $4,786 for on campus.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: shady06
i love how the second letter mentions that the proice for internet access is so reasonable but does not take inot consideration the money that is made by charging outrageous housing and food fees

Maximum housing cost at Purdue is $7,620 for the year. Therefore, you pay roughly $847 per month and that includes all utilities, housing close to campus, and 20 meals per week. This, of course, is for the nicest on campus housing. Housing can be had as low as $4,786 for on campus.

wow, i guess land in Indiana is worthless

 

[fumbduck]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: shady06
i love how the second letter mentions that the proice for internet access is so reasonable but does not take inot consideration the money that is made by charging outrageous housing and food fees

Maximum housing cost at Purdue is $7,620 for the year. Therefore, you pay roughly $847 per month and that includes all utilities, housing close to campus, and 20 meals per week. This, of course, is for the nicest on campus housing. Housing can be had as low as $4,786 for on campus.

That is DAMN expensive compared to my university. I pay about 3100 a year for housing + electric. No food, but I live on Campus, and in a campus apartment. The dorms are even cheaper. Meal plans are only 900$ a semester too, so, for 4.9k, you can live very nicely. I chose not to eat campus food, and buy doing my own shopping, I run up a bill of about 80$ a month in groceries, and that is eating extravagantly. So for under 4k a year, I live very well. T1 internet provided, but I pay for my own cable line.

 

[DaWhim]

cornell = 2gbs a month

 

[fumbduck]

Originally posted by: DaWhim
cornell = 2gbs a month

Say what? Students are limited to 2 gigabits (or bytes) a month?

Do you go to cornell? I have a friend that got a huge scholarship there.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: fumbduck

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: shady06
i love how the second letter mentions that the proice for internet access is so reasonable but does not take inot consideration the money that is made by charging outrageous housing and food fees

Maximum housing cost at Purdue is $7,620 for the year. Therefore, you pay roughly $847 per month and that includes all utilities, housing close to campus, and 20 meals per week. This, of course, is for the nicest on campus housing. Housing can be had as low as $4,786 for on campus.

That is DAMN expensive compared to my university. I pay about 3100 a year for housing + electric. No food, but I live on Campus, and in a campus apartment. The dorms are even cheaper. Meal plans are only 900$ a semester too, so, for 4.9k, you can live very nicely. I chose not to eat campus food, and buy doing my own shopping, I run up a bill of about 80$ a month in groceries, and that is eating extravagantly. So for under 4k a year, I live very well. T1 internet provided, but I pay for my own cable line.

What about trash removal, water, television, phone, etc?

 

[fumbduck]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: fumbduck

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: shady06
i love how the second letter mentions that the proice for internet access is so reasonable but does not take inot consideration the money that is made by charging outrageous housing and food fees

Maximum housing cost at Purdue is $7,620 for the year. Therefore, you pay roughly $847 per month and that includes all utilities, housing close to campus, and 20 meals per week. This, of course, is for the nicest on campus housing. Housing can be had as low as $4,786 for on campus.

That is DAMN expensive compared to my university. I pay about 3100 a year for housing + electric. No food, but I live on Campus, and in a campus apartment. The dorms are even cheaper. Meal plans are only 900$ a semester too, so, for 4.9k, you can live very nicely. I chose not to eat campus food, and buy doing my own shopping, I run up a bill of about 80$ a month in groceries, and that is eating extravagantly. So for under 4k a year, I live very well. T1 internet provided, but I pay for my own cable line.

What about trash removal, water, television, phone, etc?

Water included, cable included, trash we have to take it out to a dumpster, but other than that, free, as for phone, we have no apartment phone, we did, and it was like 22$ a month, but we never used it. So if you count my cellphone, thats another 38$ or so.

Also, you do have to provide your own furniture though, I don't know if that is the case with your example. And electricity can be a bitch, but since it is split among 3-4 people (suite), it comes to about 25-30$ a month. But I included that into the 3100.