<p>They only allow 5 GB's per month, where as I know people who are allowed from around 5GB per week or even a day...</p>
<p>Like ***?</p>
<p>Is this uploading or downloading? I imagine it's the latter, which is pretty bad since I do an awful lot of downloading.</p>
<p>Just browsing the web for a couple hours a day will zap that...</p>
<p>I'm not liking this bandwidth thing</p>
<p>do they seriously only allocate 5gb a month per person? That's ridiculous. What happens if you go over? 5 gb is none at all. Streaming music will kill that in no time. So will web browsing. Imagine if you had to use the internet for some class? Connecting to a remote destop? Connecting to use an x-server? you're screwed in no time. How about aim/msn? constantly connected, constantly pinging back and forth.</p>
<p>Where are you getting 5Gb from? According to Cornell's website (<a href="http://www.cit.cornell.edu/resnet/)%5B/url%5D">http://www.cit.cornell.edu/resnet/)</a>, ResNet users get unlimited bandwidth:
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Service includes unlimited on-campus network traffic and up to 2 Gigabytes per month of off-campus (Internet) network traffic for a basic monthly fee and an additional charge of $0.0015 per Megabyte for off-campus network traffic surpassing the 2 Gigabytes per month threshold. The basic monthly fee for ResNet is included in Campus Life housing costs for all undergraduate and graduate residence halls.
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<p>shoofy, I think that "unlimited" bandwidth is limited to intra-college access only. Once you hit anything outside the college, you are on metered bandwidth.</p>
<p>This sucks. this sucks hard. Because it is not 5 GB the OP mentioned... it is limited to 2 GB.
2 GB</p>
<p>sigh.</p>
<p>hmmm... I assumed the 2Gb limit was refering to accessing the Cornell network from off-campus, but on second read you seem to be right. That is pretty aweful. They are only charging $1.50 per Gb beyond the 2 standard ones though, so it isn't that horrible. I wonder if they have plans you can choose that will give you more bandwidth per month at less additional cost than you would incur from overages on the standard plan. Kind of like a cellphone.</p>
<p>So I'm guessing that kills any online gamers, especially MMORPG'ers at Cornell</p>
<p>dude. this kills my high speed pr0n.</p>
<p>:p</p>
<p>$1.5/GB is a lot :</p>
<p>are there alternate bandwidth plans?</p>
<p>Holy crap this is ridiculous. Cornell isn't poor, so why are they penny pinching us like this? 2GB is not nearly enough even for your typical user who only browses the internet.</p>
<p>I agree with everyone here. 2GB is nothing.</p>
<p>Good thing I'm not going to Cornell. (Actually bandwidth was one of the reasons I decided to turn Cornell down)</p>
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<p>If your comp's located within Cornell's campus, it seems you should be fine. If you planning on accessing a machine at home/other place from Cornell, good luck..</p>
<p>well I just got in, and **** the bandwidth, I'm going there!</p>
<p>Seriously, w.t.f....it's BANDWIDTH!! and only off campus...</p>
<p>what's the most it could cost over the course of two semesters? just add that to your tuition fee.</p>
<p>That all depends on how much bandwidth one uses</p>
<p>Wait, I don't remember where I read it exactly (I think in one of the pamphlets in the enrollment package), but I do believe that if you subscribe to a wireless connection, what you use with that is not counted in your ResNet limit. I have to check my sources.</p>
<p>all of you are wrong
you get unlimited bandwith in terms of using DC++ to share files
and if you use 5 GB a month transfering game data, your game sux0rz</p>
<p>and i pity you raghavp, for making something as trivial as bandwith (if you need it that badly, pay the extra 30 bucks a month for another 10 gigs, it's college for god's sakes) a major part of your college decision</p>
<p>I was talking to a student who said there was definitely a 2GB cap when accessing data from outside the cornell campus. He also told me that there IS unlimited wireless data available (the access both on and off campus resources), however, since it is unlimited, it is painfully slow because everyone and their mother is using it.</p>