<p>I'm going to be attending Cornell's summer program for high school students in less than a week(:D), and I'm a bit concerned about bandwidth. I luckily have a 15mbit/2mbit connection at home, which is unmetered, but I use a lot of bandwidth(at least 30-40gb a month-ish). Anyway, I was wondering: does Cornell meter the wireless? I'm bringing up a desktop, and was contemplating buying a cheap wireless card from Newegg if it wouldn't be metered. Also, is the wireless internet fast? I know it's 802.11g connected to an OC3 line, but is it bogged down, and does the wireless act as a bottleneck?</p>
<p>Thanks,
Mike</p>
<p>What do you use all that bandwidth for?</p>
<p><em>coughOiNKcough</em></p>
<p>You're gonna need to use on-campus resources (DC++, see other threads in this forum for more information) to avoid getting fined for that bandwidth use.</p>
<p>I heard that DC++ wasn't availible during the summer.</p>
<p>Then stock up on whatever you want for the summer... come on, you don't really need to use that much bandwidth.</p>
<p>Is wireless bandwidth metered?</p>
<p>Public wireless (Red Rover) is not, but if you just use a router to make your connection wireless then it will count.</p>
<p>No, it's not metered. But it is pretty slow. If you're going to use that much bandwidth, it's probably going to be cheaper to see if you can buy cable internet access from Time Warner or something than to pay for it from Cornell.</p>
<p>Wait a second though dude. 30 GB of music would be about 10,000 mp3's, which would be maybe 35,000 minutes of music, which is 24 straight days of listening per month. Add to that <em>finding</em> all of it and you don't have time to breathe. Or it could be 75 hours of video, which is about two and a half hours of watching movies every day. There's no way you need all of that.</p>
<p>He must be running a porn site, that's the only explanation.</p>