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16,000 CWRU Computers Getting Gigabit Ethernet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fair-bit-of-bandwidth dept.

lowlypeon writes "In a move that makes going back to college more tempting than usual, Case Western is installing fiber connections in 16,000 computers over the next year to give students a 1 gigabit per second Ethernet connection. Administrators aren't sure what anybody needs that kind of bandwidth for yet, but they are curious to see how it gets used."

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  1. going back to college by yatest5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    makes going back to college more tempting than usual

    Sorry, but personally, fast internet connections don't rate quite as highly as 18 year old girls...

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    • Mod parent up! [a] by Anonymous Coward (Score:5) Thurs, June 31, @13:37
  2. In Related News by Snuffub · · Score: 5, Funny

    In related news the university has also been sued by the RIAA. In a writen statment the spokesman for the RIAA said "Of course were sueing What the hell else do you think theyll use that network for besides stealing our intelectual property."

    This suit is the first in a series of legal actions that the RIAA hopes will solve the P2P dilema. The longterm goal of the law suits is to return everyone to 9600kbps modems or as the same spokesman was quoted saying "If users cant handel the responsibility that comes with a broadband connection we'll have to limit it to corpate america, the last bastion of trust and integrity in america today."

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