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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. yummy .. by jest3r · · Score: 0, Troll

    pr0n, mp3s, avis, vobs, warez ... the usual

  2. Great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now that's all we need are even more bandwidth given to people who will:

    a. run insecure unix machines that are often used in DDOS attacks.
    b. use them to attack other sites on the net at gig-e speeds
    c. run warez sites
    d. whatever else that is anti-social

  3. What about the constant reboots? by Smuffe · · Score: 1, Troll

    give students a 1 gigabit per second Ethernet connection...

    Oh boy, this is gonna be fun. Hopefully the medical students watching surgery in real time wont bother too much about the constant reboots because of kiddies running 31337 DDOS attacks at each other....
    /Smuffe

  4. Re:Which one is it? by Cramer · · Score: 1, Troll

    And so they continue on the road of lameness. There's very (*very*) little reason to run fiber to a desktop. There's not that much of a reason to run fiber to a server.

    In my book, the only reason to use fiber is distance. (And the fact that Cisco doesn't support copper GBICs on hardly anything.)