<p>Is the Internet usually fast in college dorms? I have a fast laptop, but it'll be great if the Internet was fast so I can play some online games</p>
<p>Varies from school to school. Usually however, you can plug in an ethernet cord straight from the wall to your computer which will give you fast internet.</p>
<p>Make sure you check the internet usage policy at your school. At some schools, you can face a penalty for going over their bandwidth limit. The consequence is usually being unable to access the internet for a certain number of days.</p>
<p>wireless in my dorm sucked, but the ethernet was marginally better</p>
<p>Depends on the school (you’ll have better luck asking on your school’s forum).</p>
<p>For instance, at Pitt, you can’t get wireless in your room, but you do get Ethernet which goes quick. No bandwith limit.</p>
<p>At Georgia State, my brother basically said that the internet stunk (when he went). He basically gave up trying.</p>
<p>At The University of Texas at Austin we have amazing internet. It’s so fast we are limited by the throughput of the CAT5/Ethernet cables. I regularly download at 11 MB/sec and upload at 11 MB/sec. Yes, megabytes per second. It’s wonderful since I am a heavy torrenter of 1080p movies and HD TV Shows.</p>
<p>The only downside is your bandwidth limits. You can pay for 4GB/week, 20GB/week, 40GB/week, or 60GB/week. My freshman year I got 20GB/week and I found I ran over my bandwidth every week a few days before it reset. I had to adjust my downloading/uploading habits to prevent that from happening, since when you go over the speeds reduce to 56k speeds. This year I will be getting the 40GB or 60GB package.</p>
<p>You have to pay for your internet?!?! Wow.</p>
<p>Most schools have free internet.</p>
<p>We have ResNet to all the dorms and apartments…it’s usually pretty fast, although there was something wrong with my port this year that they failed to fix so I was pretty frustrated.</p>
<p>Internet speeds ranged anywhere from 2 MB/s to 7 MB/s (15 mbps to 50+ mbps) depending on the time. Intranet (within campus network) speeds usually were 8 MB/s to 11 MB/s.</p>
<p>We have no bandwidth limit that I know of. Although I’ve heard IT will ask you to curb your usage if you are going through a ridiculous amount (I’ve heard of people that go through hundreds of gigabytes a day).</p>
<p>internet at Maryland sucks which is kinda ironic since we have a good computer science program.</p>
<p>That is pretty messed up that you have to pay, but then again if you’re reliably getting those speeds then I’d say it’s worth it. Internet is free at Maryland but in my dorm last semester it was incredibly unreliable during peak hours. I hated it</p>
<p>We use ResNet and the whole campus is wireless (including the medical center). It kinda sucks coming home because I don’t get internet everywhere I go, haha.</p>
<p>There’s wifi everywhere on campus at my school. The internet is incredibly fast. Kinda makes me miss living on campus.</p>
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<p>The internet is actually really fast at state. I’ve done speed tests and have gotten speeds at about 61mbps on an Ethernet connection. Unfortunately, the school itself still sucks.</p>
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<p>LOL. You made it seem like no one’s ever seen speeds that high. I don’t regularly sit and watch stuff that I’m downloading, but I’ve seen the speeds go upwards of 14mbps at school.</p>
<p>east89 14mbps is 1.75MB/s, so yes the 11 MB/s speeds are crazy fast. Even the 61mbps that you mentioned are only 7.6MB/s</p>
<p>Yeah, I was making sure people understood that I was referring to megabytes and not megabits. 11mb/s is not that amazing at all, but 11MB/s is for a school connection. That’s why I bolded the bytes part and not the mega part ;)</p>
<p>The wireless internet at Clemson’s been pretty reliable, fast and accessible anywhere on campus. I definitely miss it. There’s also now wireless in the dorms too which I’m stoked about.</p>
<p>The highest speed I saw on campus was about 250mbps, and my brother’s dorm room was usually around 80mbps. Somehow the room I got only got 7mbps. Still, it was far more reliable than my home connection.</p>