<p>I was wondering if someone attending Georgia Tech could do a speed test and post their results?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest%5B/url%5D">http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest</a> <- the closest one?
Thanks!</p>
<p>I might apply if it is fast enough.</p>
<p>You're choosing your college based in internet speed? That's the strangest thing I've ever heard.</p>
<p>Well, this is probably going to be the only thing that changes my choice in between UMich, UIUC, and GaTech.</p>
<p>Theyre all similarly ranked in engineering, but the only thing I care about now is their speeds.</p>
<p>One other major difference is the weather. There are a lot more differences as well with the cultures of each of the school's campus varying considerably. M/F ratio at tech is not very good but GA state is next door and UGA 45 minutes away. How does that compare to IL and MI? </p>
<p>Also you are in a city with GATech with all of the benefits and drawbacks that poses. </p>
<p>Atlanta is a major air hub so in and out is easy for you and family. Will that be a plus or minus for you </p>
<p>You are going to live at your school for the better part of 5 years if you do internships. So you better be looking at more than download speeds or you won't be in school very long. </p>
<p>I looked at all three of your choices in addition to Rice, Vandy, Wash U and CMU and am choosing GaTech. Internships are all over the place and they offer a dual engineering and MBA degree. </p>
<p>Just my take</p>
<p>Here is what I got on Resnet (dorm internet):</p>
<p>Last Result:
Download Speed: 33012 kbps (4126.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 689 kbps (86.1 KB/sec transfer rate)</p>
<p>ahhh delicious.</p>
<p>and are you capped?</p>
<p>i manage to get atleast 10-15 GB on the average week with a 4MB connection, so yes, i do imagine a cap would matter to my prefs</p>
<p>and how's the piracy policy?</p>
<p>I think there is some sort of cap but the policy is a bit confusing. It depends on where you use it. Your resnet account is seperate and that actually may not be (i've never heard of one). But if you use LAWN (gtwireless) or the library computers they do look at that but the limit is very high and I don't imagine anyone going over in the library.</p>
<p>There is of course some piracy policy basically because its a public school, however I've never heard of it being really enforced (at least by the school). </p>
<p>I have heard of kids being sued by the RIAA at times however but I'm sure that happens everywhere.</p>
<p>The big thing most have in their dorms is ShareScan for file sharing. It sucks pretty much for getting things in general (no better/worse than limewire etc) but its fantastic for searching local networks. </p>
<p>Set a range of GT IPs and search files, you can download whole movies in less than 3 minutes because your computers were so close and the request didn't have to leave GT. That was fun.</p>
<p>That's nice right there.</p>