acs12798
join:2006-03-13
| Re: nothing to the consumer said by noncents :
merging does nothing to bring these kinds of speeds to the last residential mile. not even close.. if anything it delays such realities..
Huh? It has nothing to do with consumer broadband nor or should it. This a private network for educational institutions. It isn't, nor was it supposed to be for the consumer. The idea is mostly to exchange research in a secure controlled environment.
Its not like the school use i2 for their internet connections. The regular internet connections the people in the schools use are much slower. | |
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morbo
Complete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
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clubs: | Re: nothing to the consumer considering that the original internet began in an institutional setting (or was it military?), seems relevant. | |
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Cabal
Premium
join:2007-01-21
Boston, MA
| said by acs12798  :Huh? It has nothing to do with consumer broadband nor or should it. This a private network for educational institutions. It isn't, nor was it supposed to be for the consumer. The idea is mostly to exchange research in a secure controlled environment. Its not like the school use i2 for their internet connections. The regular internet connections the people in the schools use are much slower. While I do agree with your first point, most schools automatically route over the I2 when able to, so they partially do use them for that purpose. Perhaps I just noticed more because I downloaded a lot of free software that was university-hosted back in college, but it was a significant portion of my traffic, and offered a nice boost in speed (155 Mbps vs. 45 Mbps Internet link at the time). Nothing to complain about when pulling ISOs at ~36 Mbps across the Atlantic. 
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 | acs12798
join:2006-03-13
| Re: nothing to the consumer said by Cabal :said by acs12798 :Huh? It has nothing to do with consumer broadband nor or should it. This a private network for educational institutions. It isn't, nor was it supposed to be for the consumer. The idea is mostly to exchange research in a secure controlled environment. Its not like the school use i2 for their internet connections. The regular internet connections the people in the schools use are much slower. While I do agree with your first point, most schools automatically route over the I2 when able to, so they partially do use them for that purpose. Perhaps I just noticed more because I downloaded a lot of free software that was university-hosted back in college, but it was a significant portion of my traffic, and offered a nice boost in speed (155 Mbps vs. 45 Mbps Internet link at the time). Nothing to complain about when pulling ISOs at ~36 Mbps across the Atlantic. Interesting, I haven't noticed that. However, my school has a 200mbps connection for its regular internet connection so I haven't felt the need to check(although 200mbps for 7000 students plus professors doesn't seem like a lot, I've never run less than 5mbps if i checked). Maybe I should run a trace route when I'm on campus. | |
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brooklynman4
join:2004-09-07
Brooklyn, NY | Re: nothing to the consumer But ill bet its not free someone gotta pay for it. | |
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join:2000-09-05
Fort Lauderdale, FL | Re: nothing to the consumer It's not free. The campus I live by is connected to it and it cost's a pretty penny, but downloading at over 100Mb/s makes it all worth while. | |
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