Gigabit Internet possible at school?

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Nickste

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Hi there,
My school has recently got their internet upgraded, and in the weekly newsletter advertised that it was a 1GB line. Now at first I took this as a typo, but after playing around a fair whack, I was gettng downloads of over 800kbps (don't know capitalization, but basically gigabit).

Is this possible? We do have the IS datacentre right next to us (Great Westerford).

Cheers, Nick
 
Nickste said:
Hi there,
My school has recently got their internet upgraded, and in the weekly newsletter advertised that it was a 1GB line. Now at first I took this as a typo, but after playing around a fair whack, I was gettng downloads of over 800kbps (don't know capitalization, but basically gigabit).

Is this possible? We do have the IS datacentre right next to us (Great Westerford).

Cheers, Nick
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Thats sounds like a typo. 800kbps is closer to a megabit (1024kbps)
 
I really dought its more than 1mb. My school has approximatly four 1mb DSL lines working together via some sort of setup (Bishops is the school, and we use laptops). During the day (peak) downloads are going at about 8kbs-20kbs (wateve) and during the evening it stays at +/- 380kbs. Like Nick said, i dont know the capitalisation. But im just demonstrating what we get at my school...
 
skuzzy said:
I really dought its more than 1mb. My school has approximatly four 1mb DSL lines working together via some sort of setup (Bishops is the school, and we use laptops). During the day (peak) downloads are going at about 8kbs-20kbs (wateve) and during the evening it stays at +/- 380kbs. Like Nick said, i dont know the capitalisation. But im just demonstrating what we get at my school...
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ahh you kids are spoilt these days. I remember with fondness the day our school upgraded from 56K dial up to 64K ISDN!!!!

I agree with P, even with all 4 DSL lines working in loadsharing you would not get more than +- 400kb/sec (as you say you get 380kb/s) so your line speed is then obviously 4mbit downstream. 1 x 4 = 4 not exactly rocket science...:D
 
It is not adsl in the form that we know it. I think the school is running a cable over the fence, and into the uunet backbone. I'll get a screenie tomorrow though - but i'm pretty sure my eyes weren't deceiving me!

Cheers, Nick
 
Ok, here's a p2p screenie. Haven't had time to do anymore test, apart from a tracert that shows it's on the IS network. THis confirms my suspicions of the lan cable over the fence :)



Cheers, Nick
 
Damn, those are nice speeds :D . I say P2P away, and let the school pay ;)

I think we have like 512kbps connection at our school, and it is slow as hell when everyone is using it :p . I try do my work now though :eek: .
 
Damn.. what school is that, ill go do the rest of my matric there.

And they let you use p2p? It does sound more like a Gigabit than anyhting else... that speed there is 3mb/s and thats on p2p (shaped shurely?) and with the load being shared by alot of PC's right?

But I geuss it could be 4mb IF you were the only person using it and it was unshaped, but likley to be faster than 4mb at least. So you mean download speeds of 800KB/s (as in the same type of speed measurement that p2p was using)
Thats is still under 7mb/s, so i doubt this is 1Gigabit, that is insane for a school or anything in SA, but damn fast anyway.
Download me some stuff if your in CPT pls dude.. you can afford it.
 
Lol... No, they don't allow p2p, but where there's a will, there's a way :)
The other thing is, it looks like it is being knocked down to 512 (e.g normal adsl) during the day. But yeah, after hours speeds are insane! I'm def. putting it down to the fact IS is next door. Hope my school admin isn't a myadsl user... Hi Mr. Bates :)
Will do some more tests soon.

Cheers, Nick
 
Nice, but can't see how they would just connect you straight to the backbone. Except if your school is paying large amounts every month for the service.

Another thing, doesn't gigabit commonly mean 1000mbits. As in 1000mbits/8 = 125Mbytes. That being 125MB as in hdd storage. Which means you should get at least a full 700mb file in less than a minute? This being really fast lan speeds, which is definatly not the case. But very lucky indeed. Looks closer to 5mbits to 8mbits. Which faster than any adsl in SA. So I call BIG typo.
 
Probably 10m/bit line~
Like bullfrog said, 1gigabit max transfer is 125megabytes a sec.
U can do a lil' test, see if u can download like 20 files from different sources and keep it going at 400kbits.
Coz sometimes the sources cant upload fast enough.
 
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