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.
