<p>What type of download and upload speeds do you get with the connection at school? </p>
<p>In dorms is it hard-wired or is it wireless?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Wireless. Fast.</p>
<p>some one at CMU would you mind running these speed tests? Just because I'm curious hehe. Please run both the upload and download tests, and you should probably choose the "smart test" option. Thanks! Also, is it possible to have a wired connection in your dorm room, or must you have a wireless connection as the only option? I think wireless is often slower than wired (be sure to say whether you have a wireless or wired connection at CMU when you run the test). One more thing: are things like online gaming and bit torrent allowed at CMU? Often you must open certain ports to do these things, and if the admin doesnt open the ports I am afraid i would not be able to use them at CMU.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.testmy.net/%5B/url%5D">http://www.testmy.net/</a></p>
<p>At my house right now here are the results: </p>
<p>:::.. Upload Stats ..:::
Connection is:: 375 Kbps about 0.38 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 46 kB/s
Tested From:: <a href="http://testmy.net%5B/url%5D">http://testmy.net</a> (Server 1)
Test Time:: 2006/04/01 - 4:37pm
Bottom Line:: 7X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 22.26 sec
Tested from a 579 kB file and took 12.66048 seconds to complete
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Diagnosis: Looks Great : 1.08 % faster than the average for host (comcast.net)
Validation Link:: <a href="http://testmy.net/stats/id-TDCL5OWYV%5B/url%5D">http://testmy.net/stats/id-TDCL5OWYV</a> </p>
<p>:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Connection is:: 4032 Kbps about 4.03 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Download Speed is:: 492 kB/s
Tested From:: <a href="http://testmy.net%5B/url%5D">http://testmy.net</a> (Server 2)
Test Time:: 2006/04/01 - 5:38pm
Bottom Line:: 70X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 2.08 sec
Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 6.078 seconds to complete
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 82.13 % of your hosts average (comcast.net)
Validation Link:: <a href="http://testmy.net/stats/id-6TJYRIGSM%5B/url%5D">http://testmy.net/stats/id-6TJYRIGSM</a></p>
<p>Use that if possible to test both download and upload.</p>
<p>Are there limitations to internet usage?</p>
<p>The connection speeds are usually limited by the site you're downloading from. I'd say on average, I download things at 1.5-2.5 MB/sec on wired, maybe 1MB/sec on wireless, but most of my downloads are small and thus seem immediate.</p>
<p>Wired and wireless are available in the dorms, and wireless is available almost everywhere. You can't download more than 10GB on wireless in 5 days. If you exceed that, they give you a warning and set a limit of 2GB/day before a warning. For wireless, it's 3.5GB in 5 days or 750 MB/day after a warning. If you get about three warnings, they kick the violating computer (based on the MAC address) off the network. </p>
<p>Speed test results:
running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 23.56Mb/s
running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 44.75Mb/s</p>
<p>Mine: 11244 Kbps or 11.24 Mbps (1373 kB/s) (Download using <a href="http://www.testmy.net/%5B/url%5D">http://www.testmy.net/</a> )</p>
<p>341 Kbps or 0.34 Mbps (42 kB/s)
(Upload...damn thats slow)</p>
<p>i heard that they sell wireless cards at hte bookstore for wireless andrew. My laptop will already have a wireless card installed, do i still need to buy the one from cmu or will any modern p to date wireless card be able to connect</p>
<p>Any modern card.</p>
<p>The silly sabertooth meant 10 GB/5 days for wired, after that being 2GB/day. He highly recommends making sure that you don't leave bittorrent alone because it might possibly start 300 seeds and result in you getting kicked of the network for uploading 40 GB in one day.</p>
<p>Also of note- fast downloads, yes, but not without some consequences. The RIAA has gotten into CMU's network, including Internet 2, and at least 30 students have been subpoenaed, or so I was told.</p>
<p>I don't care about dowlnoading illegaly, I buy all my albums and movies to support their creators. I was wondering because I was interested in maybe starting a Shoutcast channel for independent music.</p>
<p>Hmm that's weird. My roommate has been illegally downloading hundreds of megabytes on avg per day and he's fine. </p>
<p>Just don't UPLOAD files but DOWNLOAD them.</p>
<p>AA- the problem is that BitTorrent uploads at the same time as it downloads... what does your roommate use to download?</p>
<p>Limewire. I believe you can stop uploads on that either manually or with a prog.</p>
<p>bittorent allows you to adjust it, you can't cut it off, but uploading at a max of 1kbps, to a max of 1 user, and the RIAA doesn't care.</p>
<p>though, i dunno why you would do this when you can just grab things straight from people's itunes, or straight from the intranet.</p>
<p>Haha...I have no idea how to even start downloading music...I'm horrible with computers, but the wired is really fast if you want it...if you don't need a lot of downloading/uploading, just use the wireless everywhere.</p>
<p>It's probably not a great idea to promote illegal downloading over the internet... Just saying...</p>
<p>kind of an off topic ? but... does anyone here play any online games like WoW...Battelfield 2...Eve or Counterstike?</p>
<p>BF2, whenever I can find time.</p>
<p>And that's really relieving news about the internet conenction - I run servers out of my bedroom, and Optimum Online gets ****y about that. </p>
<p>Just a note on bittorrent uploads: the protocol is designed so that people who upload more have higher download speeds and higher priority from seeds. Thus, limiting upload to 1kbps will really screw with your download speeds, unless the torrent is very heavily seeded.</p>
<p>IN CONCLUSION, fast interwebs is great</p>
<p>Too bad I got waitlisted for CIT, though ;_;</p>
<p>Carnegie was the fist university to have a campus wide wireless network. They're running on t3, which is a 50 meg connection. They're also connected to internet2, which is very characteristic of CMU, back in the day, they were connected to ARPAnet. One of the origional hubs, in fact.</p>
<p>People have gotten busted for using internet2, and I don't think it's actually functional anymore. But yes, the wired internet connection is very fast. The wireless does cover the entire campus, but there are some places where the signal is pretty weak.</p>