University internet connection

[mwmorph]

Originally posted by: alfa147x

Originally posted by: mwmorph

Originally posted by: alfa147x

Originally posted by: DLeRium

Originally posted by: nkgreen

Originally posted by: alfa147x

Originally posted by: frostedflakes
It is a university after all, I'm sure they have better things to use their limited bandwidth for than letting students torrent or download porn. And 700kbps isn't *that* bad.

In a semester or two you'll be able to move out of the dorms and buy whatever speed internet you want.

It's bad when your parents have the cheapest available connection and the school can't even deliver that... im paying $1650 for my room it damn better come with a decent internet connection... none of this bullshit where things don't stream at all

Im thinking since im paying for my room/ utilities I can be damn pissed when my connection is shit

$1650 per semester? That's cheap and I'm in Alabama. I'm paying $2200 now for a frat house type dorm. Last semester I was a different apartment style dorm and paying about $3500.

lol my girlfriend's apartment is $2350 PER MONTH....

school dorm?

$1650 per semester is extremely cheap. UIUC is $3600-$4000.

Trust me i know 😉
No way in hell am i leaving this room
even though i have to share a 2 bathrooms and 5 toilets between the 14 of us im not complaining

Enjoy it while it lasts man. Freshman year, I was at PAR Dorms at UIUC. No AC, 1 shared bathroom area for the entire floor, oh and because it's close to the school of agriculture, the air smelled like manure on hot days.

On the plus side we had ridiculous internet speeds. IIRC something like 35/10 or 50/15, one of the two, it's been a few years so I don't remember.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Originally posted by: alfa147x

Originally posted by: frostedflakes
It is a university after all, I'm sure they have better things to use their limited bandwidth for than letting students torrent or download porn. And 700kbps isn't *that* bad.

In a semester or two you'll be able to move out of the dorms and buy whatever speed internet you want.

It's bad when your parents have the cheapest available connection and the school can't even deliver that... im paying $1650 for my room it damn better come with a decent internet connection... none of this bullshit where things don't stream at all

Im thinking since im paying for my room/ utilities I can be damn pissed when my connection is shit

Wow, a whole sub 2k for a year of living? And slow internet and all utilities? Those bastards...

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Originally posted by: alfa147x

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer

Originally posted by: alfa147x
I hate it too!

http://www.speedtest.net/result/596250768.png

Why is your upload so much faster? Isn't that weird?

t1 ?

T1 is 1.5/1.5 so unless its bonded, no

 

[alfa147x]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer

Originally posted by: alfa147x

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer

Originally posted by: alfa147x
I hate it too!

http://www.speedtest.net/result/596250768.png

Why is your upload so much faster? Isn't that weird?

t1 ?

T1 is 1.5/1.5 so unless its bonded, no

well thats what i think it said in the housing student manual

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Originally posted by: alfa147x

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer

Originally posted by: alfa147x

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer

Originally posted by: alfa147x
I hate it too!

http://www.speedtest.net/result/596250768.png

Why is your upload so much faster? Isn't that weird?

t1 ?

T1 is 1.5/1.5 so unless its bonded, no

well thats what i think it said in the housing student manual

Might be a T3, I cant see any real college using a T1 for their network connection these days.

 

[Brainonska511]

I don't remember what it was in the dorm (maybe 10mbps/10mbps); in the lab I work in on campus, I have a almost 100mbps/50mbps. I remember downloading stuff of servers at Argonne at 10MB/sec.

Of course, my apartment has crippled internet at 768kbps/384kbps. But hey, it's only $20/month.

 

[alfa147x]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer

Originally posted by: alfa147x

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer

Originally posted by: alfa147x

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer

Originally posted by: alfa147x
I hate it too!

http://www.speedtest.net/result/596250768.png

Why is your upload so much faster? Isn't that weird?

t1 ?

T1 is 1.5/1.5 so unless its bonded, no

well thats what i think it said in the housing student manual

Might be a T3, I cant see any real college using a T1 for their network connection these days.

ahhh thats what i think it is

 

[Demo24]

I have no idea if they limit in the resident areas at my school, but I think they throttle wireless. Either way on a lab comp one day I decided to speed test and ended up with about 200mb/100 before it hit the time limit 😀. No idea what the download cap is, but it's quick whatever it is. Never seen web pages load so fast before. Not really what you would expect from such a small school in northern Georgia.

 

[alfa147x]

Originally posted by: DEMO24
I have no idea if they limit in the resident areas at my school, but I think they throttle wireless. Either way on a lab comp one day I decided to speed test and ended up with about 200mb/100 before it hit the time limit 😀. No idea what the download cap is, but it's quick whatever it is. Never seen web pages load so fast before. Not really what you would expect from such a small school in northern Georgia.

North Georgia College & State University>?

 

[AstroManLuca]

Man, I'm lucky. I went to college after super-fast broadband became widespread, but before every college started throttling everyone's connection. It was nice.

You'd think they'd at least just try to block commonly-used P2P ports, though, rather than throttling the entire connection.

 

[Gunslinger08]

I lived on campus 1 year when I was in college. We didn't have any sort of limit, but I'm guessing they implemented one soon after. Sometimes the connection would crawl because of overuse. I think about 2/3 of my dorm got emails from tech support about cease and desists from the MPAA. Our network was also completely open. I could browse shared files and printers across the entire campus.

 

[spidey07]

They're just trying to make sure there's a decent experience for everybody instead of a horrific one for all. That and universities are the most challenging network there are because of the entitlement mentality kids that think they somehow "deserve" fast internet for free. And the peer-2-peer, constantly downloading, etc. The uni is doing this for your own good and the good of all students.

 

[Demo24]

Originally posted by: alfa147x

Originally posted by: DEMO24
I have no idea if they limit in the resident areas at my school, but I think they throttle wireless. Either way on a lab comp one day I decided to speed test and ended up with about 200mb/100 before it hit the time limit 😀. No idea what the download cap is, but it's quick whatever it is. Never seen web pages load so fast before. Not really what you would expect from such a small school in northern Georgia.

North Georgia College & State University>?

:Q

Nice guess!

 

[alfa147x]

Originally posted by: DEMO24

Originally posted by: alfa147x

Originally posted by: DEMO24
I have no idea if they limit in the resident areas at my school, but I think they throttle wireless. Either way on a lab comp one day I decided to speed test and ended up with about 200mb/100 before it hit the time limit 😀. No idea what the download cap is, but it's quick whatever it is. Never seen web pages load so fast before. Not really what you would expect from such a small school in northern Georgia.

North Georgia College & State University>?

:Q

Nice guess!

google

 

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer

Originally posted by: IGBT
so your at school and you wana sit around watching you tube??

Eco-KOOK?

in your case willing accomplice.

 

[Cheesetogo]

Last year I had to deal with something similar at Penn State - we had ~1.5-3 mbps connections, but during the day it would often drop way down. On top of that, we were limited to 4 GB of bandwidth per week... I transferred to another school (not because of the internet) and found myself with an unlimited 80 mbps connection. 😀

 

[DrawninwarD]

Man that's weak. 🙁

I go to the University of Waterloo. 100 MBit/s dl and noooo restrictions (none during the summer and nothing you can't get around during the fall and winter).

 

[frostedflakes]

Originally posted by: Cheeseplug
I would move off campus if there wasn't scholarships involved. Free money is good.

It isn't only students they are limiting either, so far as I can tell it is universally capped. I especially like it when a prof tries to stream a video for lecture and it takes ages to buffer so we can watch it uninterrupted. I understand it is a university and the demographics say it will be abused, but give us at least a couple of megabits! What's the point of having the tech if you aren't going to use it?

That's pretty bad if speeds are also that slow in the classroom. That might be why they cap down the residence halls so bad, maybe they barely have enough bandwidth to go around as it is.

 

[frostedflakes]

Originally posted by: spidey07
They're just trying to make sure there's a decent experience for everybody instead of a horrific one for all. That and universities are the most challenging network there are because of the entitlement mentality kids that think they somehow "deserve" fast internet for free. And the peer-2-peer, constantly downloading, etc. The uni is doing this for your own good and the good of all students.

Entitlement mentality? The students' tuition and room and board is paying for that network. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a fast connection if the university's network can handle it. Of course academics takes priority, so if students' internet usage starts to interfere with that, I don't think it's unreasonable to implement caps.