<p>What speeds does the internet at UCSC go at?</p>
<p>Also, should I get a smartphone - such as a Motorola Droid - for College? I'm not sure it'd be worth it to get a smartphone that I'd have to pay $30 bucks a month for a internet data plan that I'd be getting free off of Cruznet.</p>
<p>I don’t remember the exact speed, but it’s over 500kb/s.</p>
<p>Cruznet is not compatible with smartphones. You have to use Cicso NAC agent to verify your system’s integrity before you can access Cruznet, and it’s not available for smartphone use.</p>
<p>My smartphone accessed Cruznet fine during orientation. I don’t know if they changed the security or something, but it worked.</p>
<p>University Internet speeds tend to be really fast. This is what my cousin got at Berkeley a couple weeks ago.
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<p>83.91 mb/s (megabits) = 10.5 mB/s (megabytes) = 85924 kb/s (kilobits) = 10740 kB/s (kilobytes)</p>
<p>I don’t know how fast it goes but it goes pretty fast faster then my internet connection at home.</p>
<p>They change the security during orientation so anyone can access the network without having to download the software. It’s already confusing enough at orientation without having to worry about that. :P</p>
<p>Did they change that REALLY recently? I used Cruznet on my iPhone all of last year (Sept - June) and I was able to log in fine. I guess I would sometimes get an error where I wasn’t redirected to the log in page, but that only happened 1/5 times.</p>
<p>It works fine. I know a number of professors who would pretty much flip out if the techstaff messed up the network for iphones and other portable devices.</p>
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