<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>I have recently applied to MIT, and am wondering how fast the internet is there. If someone could do a speedtest.net test on the MIT campus internet that would be great! Furthermore, I was wondering how much does the admin monitor internet use?</p>
<p>Thanks so much</p>
<p>Our internet is the best. Like, seriously - MIT has a class A subnet and all of the dorms are wired with CAT5 cable or faster. If you’re asking whether you can pirate a bunch of stuff, the administration takes note of suspicious activity, and I know various people who have gotten takedown notices, but I wouldn’t ever openly / carelessly do anything illegal in my dorm.</p>
<p>^I’m curious to know the exact speed in Mbps, if you can provide it - and the download/upload limit.</p>
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<p>i’ve never gotten under 100 mbps up and down. </p>
<p>can’t speak for how the sysadmins monitor it from a student perspective (obviously)</p>
<p>Huh. And I’m still running a 512kbps download speed, with 1Mbps at night. (Can this make me a URM?)
Okay but in all seriousness, that’s awesome. I hope I get accepted just for that :D</p>
<p>Edit: 10 ms ping? Seriously? Now I need to get accepted just for lag-free online play. If I ever manage to go, I’m taking my PS3. Don’t know or care how, I’ll sacrifice taking clothes to take it. :)</p>
<p>Edit 2: On a side-note, I loved the blog :D</p>
<p>Stanford’s internet speed will be a lot faster in some years. Google is building a fiber optics network in Stanford university.</p>
<p>@emadwilliam actually Google is just building the network for a neigherbor of faculty houses on stanford’s campus: [Official</a> Google Blog: Bringing ultra high-speed broadband to Stanford homes](<a href=“http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/bringing-ultra-high-speed-broadband-to.html]Official”>Official Google Blog: Bringing ultra high-speed broadband to Stanford homes)</p>
<p>I didn’t feel like opening a new thread.</p>
<p>I was wondering, I am aware that torrenting copyrighted material is against the law, and if MIT catches you, they will cut off your connection.</p>
<p>Now, what about private trackers? I heard SOME of them are encrypted and therefore, the ISP can’t know what is being sent and received.</p>
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<p>Schools don’t generally directly monitor their networks for downloading - rather, they wait until content owners send cease and desist letters with an IP address attached; then they complain at the student that (maybe) downloaded the file.</p>
<p>It is kinda sad that they monitor those things though - I can only dream of the stuff I would be able to download if I saturated a 100 mbps connection…</p>
<p>AFAIK, some private trackers are encrypted. The other option would be to use someone else’s wifi using a cantenna and an Alfa card (I have both :D), then again, I guess it’d look suspicious when they inspect your room.</p>
<p>Question: I read at MIT’s site that putting your computer in bridge mode to allow another device to connect to MITnet can bring down the entire network (lolwut) is this true? Can someone confirm it?</p>
<p>Also, it’s not like you can’t use Netflix on campus 
Or rent movies from Blockbuster and rip them off to your hard drives (gotta fill those 4TB somehow! LOL)</p>
<p>Also, Steam works well at MIT AFAIK, and since I don’t pirate ames, I don’t worry.</p>
<p>That would mean the only problem would be music… Starbucks, anyone? LOL</p>
<p>What : no torrent or illegal downlaod!!!HOW AM I GONNA LIVE there(this stuff is very normal in my coutry ;we have have thousands of shopps of pirtated materials).
Anyway, it doesn’t matter since i’m going to study not downlload but the idea of getting rid of the 1MBPS connection(sometimes 512) and connecting at 100 MBPS speed is so thrilling!</p>
<p>trolololololol XD</p>
<p>Meh, seriously, the last thing we’ll want to do when we go there will be downloading illegal stuff, with all the homework and activities we’ll be doing do in college :D</p>
<p>Besides, if we really want music, we could buy it or go to Starbucks XD</p>
<p>I’m wondering… How big are the dorm rooms? Is there any site where I can see pictures of the MIT dorms to see how big they are?</p>
<p>^ The rooms vary a lot from dorm to dorm. Some people have pictures of rooms up on the blogs, but you’d have to search around for it.</p>
<p>Good, if I’m not studying I can play my games without lag :D</p>