Bandwidth Heaven

Ug · #1 20th October 2004, 01:54 PM

Now as some of you may know I used to be stuck on a 56K connection and I moaned about it a lot. Well now that i'm at the University of Nottingham I'm connected up to the University's connection. I never really appreciated how fast it was until I downloaded the ISOs for FC3 Test 3 a little while ago.

I set the download up before going to lunch expecting it to be rather slow, only to return 30 minutes later to find that all of the downloads had finished! Thats 1.8 gigs worth of files at an average speed of about 615 KB/s!

I'm in heaven.

***ewdi*** · #2 20th October 2004, 01:54 PM

hahah campus line is always fast, enjoy it while you can

Ug · #3 20th October 2004, 02:00 PM

Sadly their proxy server prevents all forms of file sharing, messes up the picture when streaming BBC news and prevents online gaming.

jale2ice · #4 20th October 2004, 03:39 PM

You should request that they open up the flood gates during after hours...

Try bittorent in College.

jcstille · #5 20th October 2004, 04:52 PM

Yeah our college line is awesome. But wide open, got online gaming and file sharing (not that I do)

Shadow Skill · #6 21st October 2004, 12:13 AM

That's almost five times faster than my own connection (I can do a full DVD iso in about four hours if the torrent speed is good.) j00 sux0r!

Prometheus · #7 21st October 2004, 01:04 AM

He he he, some of my friends at Michigan State use bit torrent, and they said that you can find anything and download it in about half a sec, partly because the campus is so big that they probably have a copy of just about everything on there at least once

Ug · #8 21st October 2004, 01:33 AM

Well just to teach me right. My Fedora Core 3 Test 3 has now messed up. Time to file a bug report.

Shadow Skill · #9 21st October 2004, 01:57 AM

Bwaahhahahahaha, thats what you get for braging about your sweet edu line.

Jman · #10 21st October 2004, 04:28 AM

On my university campus it's faster than the DSL I had at home. I thought I got 5 Mbps down and up in one test, which was apparently at a low traffic time.

I'm probably limited by the crappy 10 Mb/s half duplex ethernet connection. I heard the head of the tech department say the main connection was 45 Mb/s. That's a big pipe.

But the filters mean I can't log onto IRC. Maybe that's a good thing.

radu5er · #11 21st October 2004, 09:14 AM

Ahh...you young-uns and your toys...

"In MY day..." (said like grampa Simpson)

...we had a "state of the art" keypunch machine and the actual computer was 200 miles away. A couple of model 28 KSR's that we used to play BLACKJACK on (can ya believe it!), and we thought it was sooooo cool! Used to sit around the computer lab for hours playing and debugging code...Fortran four as I recall.

Now that I've moved to the land of OZ I have to be satisfied with dial up as broadband is fairly expensive here and usually limited to 200 to 300 Mb per month.

Oh well, enjoy it while ya got it!

Sicily1918 · #12 21st October 2004, 07:32 PM

I know what you mean -- I have a 3Mb line at home, but we have an OC-12 at my school...

GreyGeek · #13 21st October 2004, 08:03 PM

I'm running RoadRunner at home for $45/month at 3Mbs. My avg dl speed is around 380KBs. If I pay $79/month I can get 6Mbs.

At work I can dl at about 800KBs.

sailor · #14 21st October 2004, 09:37 PM

I have RoadRunner as well 350kbs...I still think it sucks that they throttle back my connection...and then offer the new "higher speed " service. I think maybe all RR users should start a class action suit against RR and demand what they initially promised up to 10 mbit (of course their fine print said "your speed will vary blah, blah blah...").

Jman · #15 21st October 2004, 10:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by radu5er

Now that I've moved to the land of OZ I have to be satisfied with dial up as broadband is fairly expensive here and usually limited to 200 to 300 Mb per month.

Ouch. I use that in a day or two.

Is your connection really that fast? Compare to other common broadband speeds.