<p>Either way (at least for new freshmen) I don’t see any option for wired or wireless on the “My Housing” page under “Update Resnet Option”. I’m going to assume that they’re giving me both.</p>
<p>I used skype during orientation for less 10 minutes and surfed the internet for a little while, and I managed to cap my 500 mb barely into the second day. That second line they put you on is a pain.</p>
<p>@soadquake: same here. Perhaps the option will come later after move-in?</p>
<p>so if you select the wired option, then where is the port located - in your room right? - and i dont know which tier to get - i use the internet for facebook, email, suurfing, and watching movies/tv shows, oh and i also have an ipod touch that i would use the internet for, so the 25 or the 50 gb?</p>
<p>^ How much TV/Movie watching online? Streaming eats up bandwidth</p>
<p>25 should be fine for steaming, even a lot. The average 30 minute show is actually 22 minutes without commercials. Most compression gets this down to 175mb per 30 minute show.</p>
<p>If we figure just 20GB for TV and movie watching alone, that leaves you 5GB for the rest of your internet activities (facebook, pictures, music, etc).</p>
<p>20GB = 20480MB = ~2574 minutes of regular definition TV = 367 minutes a day = 6.13 hours of steaming content a week. That would be a LOT of TV to leave streaming in your room every day.</p>
<p>If we move to HD content the number gets higher (I was assuming 480p earlier, like hulu does or most xvid compression on torrents). If we got to 720p it’s about 600MB for a 22 minute show. So that would give you 750 minutes of TV per week or 12 hours of HD movie watching. That also sounds like a lot since there aren’t that many places to stream 720p TV, and so it would only be movies that would get you that high of a download.</p>
<p>Short story: get the 25GB. You can always upgrade later.</p>
<p>I bow to your math powers.</p>
<p>orz <<< 'tis why I bow</p>