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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. bottlenecks?? by MarvinMouse · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Won't this really only be useful for the people on campus, even if someone in New York had an equivalent HS connection because of the inherent bottlenecks that exists on the current internet.

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