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how does a university get such a fast conection??

any ideas?

they have lots of users and can justfiy needing it, for research and development purposes. i think

Some Unis also have leased lines that the Students pay towards out of their
loans / grants / whatever students get these days.

they dont have like their own exchange do they. I mean i was downloading from the network last night at an awsome speed and uploading even higher.

How is it tho that they can have so many pc`s and so much bandwidth. they musdt have hundreds of lines or maybe a direct link to an exchange.

i am just very curious! and bord

Probably a leased line. A dedicated Internet circuit.

They used to use JANET - Joint Academic Network in order to share the bandwidth across all the universities in the land with a internet PHAT pipe at Telehouse or at the main Internet Junction in London.

Don't know if that is still the case now though

JANET was still used when I was at Uni (a few years ago).

Downloading stuff at 3 megabits/sec (in 1998) = ownage. Though of course the total bandwidth available was a lot more than that.


They also have their own dedicated lines - I spent a lot of time at an offsite facility, one of a few, which all had a nice phat pipe back to the Uni.[/url]

I know some people, that on the last day of term at uni, they set up a quake/quake2 server. They knew nobody would check the machines until the end of the sumer holidays. They got some insane pings on a private server, considering they where on dialup

its janet. Dont abuse her , the consequences are tough against Unis nowadays.

when libaries been empty i have downloaded 300mb in around 1.5mins here.

when full it takes about 4 mins for 250mb....still super speedy though

shame my room connection is ntl 1p a min 56k instead though...cant play games!

Heh I remember janet - joint academic network something or other?

Playing mud games over that was fun

hmm pad rings a bell...

yeh our uni (uni of leeds) we get some crazy d/l speed- clocked it at 4.1mb per sec!
will try and get a screenie

Do some collages and unis provide their own Internet service? I know the collage near me Blackpool and the Fylde cost has 3 satellite’s my friends dad works in the collage in the it department and his laptop connection is ultra fast

Rawk wrote:Heh I remember janet - joint academic network something or other?

Playing mud games over that was fun

hmm pad rings a bell...

Sadly that rings a bell here too

we recently upgraded from a 2 meg leased line to a 100 meg with a 10 meg laserlink to our remote site. We're also with JANET too.
during our research, the bandwidth in and out of the college never really tops the 2 meg barrier anyway, so me ane my team tend to have plenty to play with.

EDIT: mind you, we're a college, with some uni funding, so i'm sure that some uni's out there have a higher link.

k4tt wrote:we recently upgraded from a 2 meg leased line to a 100 meg with a 10 meg laserlink to our remote site. We're also with JANET too.
during our research, the bandwidth in and out of the college never really tops the 2 meg barrier anyway, so me ane my team tend to have plenty to play with.

EDIT: mind you, we're a college, with some uni funding, so i'm sure that some uni's out there have a higher link.

ello

PAYNEY wrote:yeh our uni (uni of leeds) we get some crazy d/l speed- clocked it at 4.1mb per sec!
will try and get a screenie

highest i got from ours was like 8pm when virtually no one there, about 6mb/s i think

EagleEye wrote:
ello

did i say something wrong?

k4tt wrote:

EagleEye wrote:
ello

did i say something wrong?

you never said hi to eagle...he's touchy about those things

lol, aight Eagle. How's things? ;p