<p>Hey, could someone at Wash U go to this site:</p>
<p>Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test</p>
<p>and report their results? Just curious...</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>cool site. I can tell you it’s 40 Mb/s download, 30 Mb/s upload in the UC Berkeley dorms, for comparison anyway…</p>
<p>OMG wow compared to the place I live this is like paradise. But can you use bit torent and all that other “illegal stuff” haha?</p>
<p>lol, ya the connection is pretty good at WashU. I definitely never felt like it was too slow… They’ve got torrents and limewire and stuff blocked though… maybe there’s a way around that, but I never really cared enough to try to figure it out.</p>
<p>Because it’s such a big network does the speed change throughout the day? For instance, is it a lot faster at 10am than 10pm? (due to different number of users)</p>
<p>Just as a general rule- the ethernet always tends to be super fast, regardless of time of day.
I have noted the lags in the wireless at times though.</p>
<p>Typically when I’m in my dorm room, I stick to the ethernet. That’s what extremely long ethernet cords are for.</p>
<p>I’ve got a couple 50’ ethernet cords lying around, plus an ethernet cable coupler, so I’m ready to go!</p>
<p>Could someone at WashU please take that test and report the results?</p>
<p>I’m not on campus to do a speed test, but as noted, without a workaround, you cannot use the ample bandwidth to torrent or otherwise utilize certain non-http protocols…from your dorm that is. Those restrictions don’t, for instance, exist in the library. But as you can imagine, that comes with its own set of issues. </p>
<p>I will say that a transfer friend of mine is connected via the WashU dorms to over VPN to his former university’s network, and torrent at speeds slightly better than the 10/1 plan sold by many ISPs.</p>
<p>Okay, I just ran it on two different computers both directly connected with wired gigabit ethernet to the campus backbone (within an ArtSci department, NOT from a dorm on the South 40). The default results are:</p>
<h1>1: Download 25.50 Mb/s, Upload 30.44 Mb/s, Ping 14 ms (St Louis server)</h1>
<h1>2: Download 28.39 Mb/s, Upload 25.39 Mb/s, Ping 16 ms (St Louis server)</h1>
<p>However, I happened to know that our connection from Level3 actually routes out of Chicago so I pointed both systems to use the Chicago speedtest server:</p>
<h1>1: Download 54.54 Mb/s, Upload 28.90 Mb/s, Ping 7 ms (Chicago server)</h1>
<h1>2: Download 91.99 Mb/s, Upload 38.94 Mb/s, Ping 12 ms (Chicago server)</h1>
<p>And for fun I also pointed both to Kansas City:</p>
<h1>1 Download 39.86 Mb/s, Upload 26.33 Mb/s, Ping 19 ms (Kansas City)</h1>
<h1>2 Download 42.34 Mb/s, Upload 32.23 Mb/s, Ping 26 ms (Kansas City)</h1>
<p>So pointing to servers outside of the default St. Louis speedtest server actually gives better results! This goes to show you that using speedtest.net gives a lot of differing results, but the bottom line is that the Wash U network here is pretty fast!</p>
<p>do they have wireless in the dorms? or do i need to bring an ethernet cable?</p>
<p>^There is wireless, but you should bring an ethernet cable as backup. They can be useful on campus in the rare building or two that doesn’t get wireless.</p>
<p>do you recommend getting information about setting up internet connections for my laptop and iTouch before I get to campus?</p>
<p>actually, one of you might be able to answer this question b/c you seem very computer savvy: When I attempted to set up my outlook from home (although I might use the Live@Edu thing anyway) I said that we use Microsoft Exchange because thats how to check email through WashU’s site. However, I didn’t know the name of the server, and neither did the woman working at the STS desk. Do you happen to know? Or does it work better if i choose (rather than exchange) the Internet email option, which includes POP, IMAP, and HTTP server? Thanks</p>