Durham Collage has many stability issues, not usually noticed until during the school year (when thousands of people are using it heh). Next to that, finding a Wired network port that isn't busted is almost as likely as chartwells their prices.
Wireless access in the building is sketchy as well, the WPA2 method they use goes down a lot. Additionally there are *ALOT* of hotspot that wont allow you to authenticate at all...
Oh! for this year there is plans to be able to control MSN access in class. So I've read in the college newspaper. I would like to know how they plan on doing that, as if it is a software block on their Mobile computing systems then do they plan on restricting students from bring their own systems.
@Kpaul: Most people can get those speeds if they really wanted to. Durham college as an example, anyone can walk in who isn't a student, go to the computer commons and plug in. I haven't seen one person yet get asked for ID there.
The problem is that the file being transferred from speedtest.cogeco.net is too small to do an accurate test, but the maximum I have been able to ever download is 12 Mbyte/sec because the LAN is only 100 Mbit.
