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rahaydenuk

10-100 Mb/s (!) at uni, but 512 Kb/s at home (although my dad wants to upgrade to 2Mb/s and get a static IP address :biggrin:

and what's his excuse for doing that?

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picju96

512 kbps at home, faster at uni though, have no idea what it is though

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elpaw

picju96

512 kbps at home, faster at uni though, have no idea what it is though

probably the standard (unless your uni has somehow dissasociated itself from the network) 100 Mbit

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elpaw

probably the standard (unless your uni has somehow dissasociated itself from the network) 100 Mbit

Why? Why do the uni need such a huge connection speed?

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elpaw

2776

Why? Why do the uni need such a huge connection speed?

because there are lots of people using it.

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Chris_

Only got 56k at home because you cant get anything better in my viallage ( the exchange isnt set up for it).

My uni network is capped at 10 Mbps now, they reduced it this year from 100 Mbps. 10 is fast enough anyway.

Also Ive been told that my uni has more bandwidth than the whole of Ireland..

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elpaw

Chris_

Only got 56k at home because you cant get anything better in my viallage ( the exchange isnt set up for it).

have you heard, villages are going to get wifi broadband. bt is setting up masts right now.

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Chris_

Also Ive been told that my uni has more bandwidth than the whole of Ireland..

lol

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Chris_

elpaw

have you heard, villages are going to get wifi broadband. bt is setting up masts right now.

I hadnt heard that! Should be great, but will probably be quite a while until it's up and running, and knowing my luck will be a few years until they even start putting masts up in my area.. :frown:

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Chris_

2776

lol

Yea, Im not sure how much truth that holds but we were told it on the open day by the dean of the computing school.

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Chris_

Yea, Im not sure how much truth that holds but we were told it on the open day by the dean of the computing school.

which uni is it?

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elpaw

2776

which uni is it?

is it imperial, i can sort of remember them saying something like that

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Chris_

2776

which uni is it?

UEA. Just an average sized uni which makes it even harder to believe.

Reply 53

But surely in Ireland there are unis as well with similar bandwidth?

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Chris_

elpaw

is it imperial, i can sort of remember them saying something like that

There's a guy in my halls that was told it when he visited another uni aswell (cant remember which). Maybe Ireland just has a very small amount of bandwidth..

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elpaw

Chris_

There's a guy in my halls that was told it when he visited another uni aswell (cant remember which). Maybe Ireland just has a very small amount of bandwidth..

maybe. maybe its just something they say to tempt people. he could have been talking about northern ireland.

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elpaw

Chris_

I hadnt heard that! Should be great, but will probably be quite a while until it's up and running, and knowing my luck will be a few years until they even start putting masts up in my area.. :frown:

the article is here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3323681.stm and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3333601.stm but it looks like they're only trials for now, it might be years until it is rolled out over the country.