<p>Does MIT limit bandwidth usage per day? Also, what are the dl/ul speed rates?</p>
<p>It's all about the fat pipe...</p>
<p>MIT does not limit bandwidth, so we get pretty much full access to a crazy awesome connection. Just on a regular windows PC I have gotten download rates above 600 KB/sec on the general internet, within the network things are even faster. If someone really knew what they were doing they could probably do much better than me.</p>
<p>I forget the terminology they used, but apparently MIT is a class A? institution, which means they own 1/256? 1/64? of all of the worlds IP addresses. Something crazy like that. During one peak usage time, MIT actually knocked the whole country of Portugal offline. The network here is just amazing.</p>
<p>WHEEEEEEEEE! mad bandwidth at mit. Thats all I need/want. </p>
<p>Heh, let me in already. :(</p>
<p>yay for bandwidth!!</p>
<p>600 is nothing, one day while my friend and I were working at a government regulated institution we downloaded 120 MB application in less than 2 minutes, it was around 1.2 mbs, now that is fast, I have never seen anything that fast before.</p>
<p>(MIT owns the entire 18.X.X.X block of IP addresses, and a block of addresses that size is called a "class A".)</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>lol wow LSA I never knew</p>
<p>i <3 mit even more!</p>
<p>Man... I don't know what that means...</p>
<p>I'm not MIT material :(:(</p>
<p>If you have your own Web site and you talked about it in your application, you might get your jollies by looking through your Web server logs for 18.* :D</p>
<p>Here's what I do:</p>
<p>grep "^18.*" access_log</p>
<p>inside my apache logs folder.</p>
<p>This isn't a foolproof method, because from what I've read, they don't normally read applications in the office... (rather, at home or something)</p>
<p>Also, keep in mind that just because you got a hit from 18.* doesn't necessarily mean it was an admissions staff member. It could be any student, faculty member, etc. anywhere on campus.</p>
<p>Pebbles, me too.</p>
<p>I figure that, when I get there, I'll find some nice boy in my dorm to teach me all this computer stuff.... ;)</p>
<p>There we go, LSA knows what I was talking about!</p>
<p>theres something call the internet2 as well... check it out online..</p>
<p>Trust me, while MIT's network is good, it's not THAT good. While the pipes are big, what really matters is not the size of the pipes themselves but rather the size of the pipes relative to the load on them. Let's not forget that MIT is full of thousands of students and researchers, many if not most of them who are tech junkies and who tend to soak up huge amounts of bandwidth. While there are times (especially during the holidays) when the available bandwidth really is blazingly fast, there are other times when lots of people are on the network and consequently things get really really slow. There are times when students have said they had to leave campus and go to their DSL-enabled apartments in order to get decent Internet bandwidth because so many other people on campus were clogging the lines.</p>
<p>really? I've never had a problem with mit's bandwidth. it's pretty darn fast to me. My biggest problem with MIT networks are the random weak signals you get from wireless in the dorms with the door closed...</p>
<p>It depends on what you mean by 'fast'. It's certainly faster than some of the crappy corporate networks that I've used. On the other hand, there are quite a few other corporate networks that truly are blazing. I once worked for a company that had less than 50 people and had a straight Fast-ethernet drop to the Internet from Cogent (only $1000 a month, which is really not a lot of money for a corporate WAN link). Now THAT was fast. </p>
<p>Look, after you graduate, you are probably going to take a corporate job, and depending on what company that is, you may be able to experience some really nice Internet performance.</p>
<p>I've gotten maybe 800KB/s down at MIT. That's not really that fast, as someone else said. For example, when I did research at Michigan State over one summer I routinely downloaded upwards of 5MB/s. They probably have the same system, but far fewer techie users. What's nice is that I get about 800 up as well as the 800 down. But MIT does own a sick number of IPs (after MIT people invented the internet protocols).
Also, you can get wireless anywhere on campus and its just as fast as LAN. And this is MIT we're talking about... computer hookups are the least of your worries here.</p>
<p>Good Point, while I was doing research at GWU last year I was pulling an insane amount of bandwidth, they have at least 3 - 500 M/bit pipes, and 4 or 5 smaller backups. They had a fibre drop to every workstation with nice media converters, it was truly beatiful.</p>
<p>Careful, River Phoenix. Actually, MIT people did not invent the Internet protocols and actually had very little involvement with the development of the Internet. The original TCP/IP protocols were invented mostly by Vint Cerf from (at the time) Stanford and UCLA, Jon Postel, also from UCLA, and Danny Cohen from Harvard. The 4 original nodes of the Internet (the Arpanet at the time) did not include MIT - but were rather UCLA, Stanford (through SRI), UCSB, the University of Utah. </p>
<p>Now, don't get me wrong. It is true that Leonard Kleinrock, the father of packet-networks did get his PhD from MIT, and MIT was one of the earlier nodes on the Arpanet, but the specific TCP/IP specifications and the beginning of the Internet had very little to do with MIT. Hence, I don't know if it's accurate to say that MIT people invented the internet protocols. I'm sure that Vint Cerf, Jon Poste, and Danny Cohen would have something to say about that.</p>
<p>Too bad Postel passed away. :(</p>