How fast is your college network?


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Just ran the test and got 1.9 megabits/sec. Last year I got 1.7 on cable at my apartment, and the year before that we were getting waaaay less at our school. They must have improved the lines while I was gone.

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we could get t3 but the admins are so lazy

Admins are like kids.....they always want the bigger better toy. I don't think it would be the admins being lazy; it is probably budget restraints....

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T1. I plug an ethernet thing into my tablet pc. I don't know whether my college network is the speed of T1 or the speed of ethernet. Help. 

If you college Internet connection is a T1, then you are running on T-1 speeds. The speed of your connection also depends on how many users are accessing the T-1 at one given time. If you got 100,000 users accessing the T-1 at one time, then you probably are running on dial-up speeds.

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We were about to get an oc3 and split it between michigan tech and northern michigan university, but they (michnet) went with 3 t3's (the third t3 goes to lake superior state).

I would have loved an oc3

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kbps = kilobits per second

KBps = kilobytes per second

The difference is in the uppercase and lower case. That is why modems are advertised as a 56kbps modem not a 7KBps modem.

1KBps = 8kbps as there are 8 bits to a byte.

512kbps = 64KBps

1mbps = 128KBps

very simple just device the kbps by 8 :)

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I am using Sun Java's (not that windows' version was any better ... they both suck.) and WinXP Pro. My roommate did the test and it worked for him. He is also using WinXP Pro and Sun Java. It gave him around 2540kbps download and 2517kbps upload.

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I had problems with Sun's version also.....it was a memory hog and didn?t work right half of the time. If it was me, I would make sure my IE was updated and uninstall sun and reinstall the MS version.

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think we got four fiber lines (big ones) going in to our school and each classroom with computers has 100mbit hubbed or switched.. and then we share this to another 20 or so schools via radio link or fibre... could easily get 4-5mb/s from a good source. kinda awesome. :woot:

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At my sisters university, they have a T1 line in each room, but with the huge amount of first year students, its just like dial-up. Damn Progressive Conservatives.

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No idea what ours has, but it's the stupidest setup ever. There's two colleges, and the main server is at the college with about 50 computers, with our college (with the computing dept!) has to access is via infra-red link. If it rains or gets slightly cloudy, we're stuffed, and end up with no net. It's already happened once since I started back a week ago!

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HOLY S***! ...i am so jealous... ;) what connection is that?

What is the bandwidth of an OC3??

that's just his cache speed... not real connection.. he hit the back button... and it loaded off his HD. Umm OC3 i think is 155Mbps @ $36,000 a year!!!

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that's just his cache speed... not real connection.. he hit the back button... and it loaded off his HD. Umm OC3 i think is 155Mbps @ $36,000 a year!!!

<----- wants an OC3 :drools: :p

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hm.. that optonline bw test shows 4.5MBit, but it's probably higher. i usually pull about 1MB/s down and 600kb/s up. plus other ppl on network i'm guess the pipe is decent. maybe oc3? maybe its just a T3

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