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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. how will they use it? by arson1 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    the same way everyone else does... music, porn, and games.

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