I’m a transfer student with Northeastern at the top of my list. As a CS major and avid gamer, a big priority of mine is the reliability and speed on Northeastern’s internet. So far, from their website, I have found that they will work with you to connect your console to the internet (this is great) and ethernet ports seem to be available in dorm rooms (can somebody confirm this for me?). However, I would love if somebody could tell me about the actual speed - how many mb/s do you get on average, what’s the ping, does the wifi drop randomly - that sort of thing.
I’m not actually shallow enough to take this great school off my list if their internet doesn’t compare to my current school, but it would certainly be helpful to know what I am getting into. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
tl;dr: can somebody post the Speedtest.net results of Northeastern’s wifi and tell me if dorm rooms have ethernet ports? Thanks in advance.
Yes, ethernet ports in dorms. Wired I believe is 400mbps (probably slightly less in practice), which is amazing. The wifi is pretty fast but it will occasionally become unreliable - not too often, though. The coverage is amazing - I’ve yet to find a dead zone and pick up the wifi in coffee shops technically off campus sometimes.
I can’t give the exact numbers since I’m not on campus or in Boston, but you’re going to be hard pressed to find better in my experience.
Non-dorm buildings also have gigabit wired internet, but that’s probably not super relevant for gaming. It was useful for huge data files in my research, though!
Meanwhile, my grad student dorm at Harvard usually gets 6 mbps. (Really, Harvard? All that endowment and you can’t get us decent internet?)