University bandwidth

[shiato storm]

just downloaded 260mb of updates through the university servers...less than 6mins
started out at something stupid like 1mb/sec then chilled out down to 600-700's..talk about sucking the internet for all its worth!

[Lee H]

heh - is that using JANET ?

I recall getting rather similar speeds when I was at University and a friend used to go into the computer room when it was very late and bash the bandwidth for himself.

Just think though - with the advent of ADSL2 on the horizon and hopefully more LLU providers this year a speed like that at home is only around the corner

[Stoo]

heh, a friend of mine in Holland has a 100mbit connection into the internet in his uni room, now that was impressive

[blockers]

Managed to download HL2 and css in 2hours....about 2.4mbs each through steam.

That was nice

[Spud1]

yeah it was great living in halls in that respect, when resnet (staffs unis shoddy excuse for a net connection) was working properly, could easily get 400kb/s of downstream and 100kps of upstream

that was thru JA.NET Tho ours is shoddy cos although we had a 622mbit connection to JA.NET, that was through stoke campus and we only have a 150mbit line to stoke

[Atomic]

I'd guess you were downloading the updates in the residences, that seems slow for a uni connection.

I get about 6-7mb/sec from good sites on my computer here...

[mr_anderson187]

cant wait till uni!!!!!!

im hoping to go to teeside university next year, mmm internet conection

they even have their own source server

[shiato storm]

nope i'm on one of the departmental 'in-house' ones, not in a hall...
you saying I can get faster? right then, any big downloads to challenge me, please?

[bertie]

10mbit is a bit crap for uni net, I had that last year in my room
Though that was because they capped everyone to 10mbit, bastids.

[Atomic]

you saying I can get faster?

If your IT deptment hasnt capped speeds and your on a decent link, then yes. Im lucky as Norwich goes into cambridge then to london so we get excellent speeds.

edit: to test it, try downloading SP2 standalone or office XP SP3.

edit2: thats more what youer should be getting.

[Nemeliza]

Last time i checked....About 3 months ago, I managed to suck out 64Mb/s out of my uni connection.
Makes u jealouse dont it!

Edit - To avoid confusion: i mean 64Megabits/s which is 8MegaBytes/s

[Kumagoro]

Back in the day about 5 years ago now when i was at uni we use to get 1 to 1.5
MB downloads... thats Mega Bytes by the way... in some of these posts its
hard to tell if you mean bits or bytes.

[Atomic]

Im talking in MegaBytes/sec. It actually means something to most people...

[Swafe]

my mate downloaded a 700mb AVI in 68 seconds at uni

shocking

[Twigman]

100mbit to my room. Uni has 1gig download pipe apparently
Internally get up to maybe 8mbps?
External I think the fasted I have had is 6mbps. (thats all bytes)

[këö¬t]

i'm at imperial college london and this hall of residence has a 2Mbit pipe to the internet. shared between all 300 of us here in this residence. send help please!

they're upgrading it to a 100Mbit connection to campus soon, but 'soon' probably means the summer, when i leave... In the lab i get about 1Mbyte/s during lunchtimes.