<p>How is the internet at GTech?</p>
<p>1) DL speed?
2) Any caps?
3) How is the wireless connection?
4) Hopefully people just don't stay in their dorms and computers. But do they?
5) Torrents?
6) Is it required to have a laptop?</p>
<p>A current student can better answer... but since no one is posting...</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Back in the day, I got up to 10 mbps D/L, and I assume it's faster now. </p></li>
<li><p>I don't know about caps. I doubt there is any, but I have heard of people pulling enormously high bandwidth and getting shut down (people running servers for porn sites or torrents)</p></li>
<li><p>Wireless connection is good and in every building. I still go back and never have a problem getting connection. </p></li>
<li><p>Some people do live in their dorm. Not everyone, but there's a number of them. I had a roommate fail out for that reason. </p></li>
<li><p>Don't know the situation on torrents, but I did hear about some people a few years ago get nailed on campus with RIAA lawsuits.</p></li>
<li><p>Laptops are required</p></li>
</ol>
<p>i went there for a campus visit and the tour guide said tech has the second fastest internet in the united states (pentagon is first).</p>
<p>Download speed through wireless connection goes up to about 3 MB/s.
With the wired connection, however, speed goes up to ~40 MB/s, which I've only experienced when downloading linux cd ISOs.
Upload speed is capped to around 200KB/s</p>
<p>Wireless connection is fine, good coverage. </p>
<p>Torrent downloads are allowed. You can get in trouble, however, if you're downloading copyrighted material, as antipiracy associations lurk around torrents targeting leechers with IPs from academic institutions. If they catch you, they sent a complaint email to the univ.</p>
<p>more here: Copyright</a> Infringement Process</p>
<p>Whether the given association decides to raise some hell with their complaint, it's up to them, even if it's just your first copyright infrigement. Most of the times however, it'll always just be a plain complaint.</p>
<p>1) DL speed? -- I hear it's a 50Mb connection. This is in line with my experience. They claim it's the fastest in the Southeast but that was 6 years ago. I assume things have changed since then.
2) Any caps? -- Not that anyone I know of has ever reached
3) How is the wireless connection? -- Very nice. Decent speeds also
4) Hopefully people just don't stay in their dorms and computers. But do they? -- There are always those types, of course.
5) Torrents? -- Torrenting now actually.
6) Is it required to have a laptop? -- It may actually be a requirement now. Most people have two computers: a desktop for games or CPU-intensive tasks and a laptop for actual work.</p>
<p>Edit: Post is showing up really weird for me for some reason.</p>
<p>Yah they said at my tour that the internet was second fastest only to the pentagon like premed said. Also I think the guide also said that laptops were recently required.</p>
<p>Second only to the Pentagon? Is there any proof of this?</p>
<p>Well the students make sure to tell you it on their tours so I would assume there is some truth in it.</p>
<p>Figured I would get some hard numbers for how fast you can expect the internet to be. Compare it with your home connection.</p>
<p>That's much better than when I was there.</p>
<p>Tech is an internet backbone and the residence halls have a direct connection to the Backbone in the Rich Building. At least that's what I was told. I'm not sure what's going to happen when when the Rich Building is taken out, though. I assume it's going to move to the new Library.</p>
<p>Burdell did you get my PM?</p>
<p>Just saw it. Let me take a look.</p>
<p>@gthopeful. </p>
<p>woah. +10 points for Georgia tech.
Too bad torrenting on campus sounds restricted…</p>
<p>Well torrenting is like that everywhere.</p>
<p>Re: Torrenting</p>
<p>Based on my experience, if you don’t keep your torrents open after they’re finished (ie. seed), your chances of getting flagged are low but not zero.</p>
<p>Three of my friends got caught. One thought it was a good idea to download ten movies in one day. The other two fell asleep while waiting and left their torrents open all night long.</p>
<p>whats the punishment for torrenting?</p>
<p>In the case of my friends, it was quite mild. (Even for the one who downloaded ten movies in one day.) Basically, they were given warnings that told them to “never do it again or else.”</p>
<p>Trust me, GT’s policy on torrenting is great compared to the draconian policies of other schools. My alma mater (UF) had a program that would ban you from the internet for 30 minutes the minute a torrent was started (and I do mean minute) for the first offense, and then after that you lost internet for like 3 days and then it was a whole semester the third time.</p>
<p>I’ve only known one guy at Tech who actually incurred the wrath of OIT and he had several terabytes of torrented stuff. They seem to be particularly aggressive in pursuing people who download game cracks.</p>
<p>You guys are coming into college at a good time. For us 20-somethings, we were in undergrad at the height of the RIAA lawsuits and many people (some Tech students too) did receive extortion letters asking for 2-3k in exchange for not taking them to court.</p>
<p>D/L speed: 2 Gbps. However, most ethernet cards will get about 80-100 Mbps. Not to mention most websites can’t upload that fast.</p>
<p>No caps, but it is recommended to keep it less than 30 GB per day. If you download more than that, you have a problem IMO.</p>
<p>Wireless connection is good, campus wide. Some spot outs (around the Greek sector, mainly).</p>
<p>Some people stay on their computers all day, but not the majority.</p>
<p>You’re not supposed to, but, it doesn’t seem to be a big deal. In fact, the RIAA had a qualm with GT because they refused to ban Napster back in the late 90s early 2000s as other unis did. They said it would be “unethical” as they were their own ISP and ISPs aren’t allowed to ban specific sites (some form of net neutrality).</p>
<p>Laptops are required.</p>