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Fiber To The Dorm Room

Posted by timothy on from the at-that-price-they-better dept.

alertpopes writes "Looking for a great education AND a dedicated personal fiber internet connection in your dorm room? Students enrolling at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH get both! Just don't bring any 10/100 equiptment - it's gigabit only around here. All students have access to over 16,000 fiber ports throughout the university plus 802.11g campus-wide! Registered students must buy a Netgear GC102 Gigabit Ethernet Media Converter through the University eStore for a mere $216.50 to connect to the service, but isn't it worth it? CWRU recommends the purchase of either a Dell or Apple for incoming students to meet networking requirements. The University was voted the 'Most wired Campus' by Yahoo! Internet Life magazine in 1999."

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  1. it time... by millahtime · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think it's time to go back to grad school. and now i know where. wonder what grad degrees they have? oh well, that is just a little detail.

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    1. Re:it time... by Elvisisdead · · Score: 2, Funny

      Except for that it's in Cleveland. Drew Cary is full of crap.

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  2. Re:Over-wired? by Trigun · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd be annoyed if I had to buy more equipment to connect my machines there, only to accomodate bandwidth I'll never realistically utilize.

    Get out. You're not welcome around here.

  3. file sharing by millahtime · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just imagine the speeds they can share their mp3 collection at. I bet they are the next top target of the RIAA

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  4. Re:obligatory by Patrik_AKA_RedX · · Score: 5, Funny
    yeah, students with gigabit 'net connection, now that must be good for grades.
    It is, if you can see 3 hours worth of porn in under 5 minutes. That does leave you another 2h50 minutes of extra time to study.

    (For those who're about to point out that 3 houres minus 5 minutes equals 2h 55 minutes: I assume 5 minutes to clean up. I mean, you do wash your hands afterwarts, right?)
  5. Re:Over-wired? by WindBourne · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, it makes a lot of sense to do this. Unfortunately, they can now only afford a t1 connection to the internet. I guess that will solve the mp3 problem though.

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  6. so who will ever need more than.... by millahtime · · Score: 4, Funny

    And no one will ever need more than 640k.

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  7. The one drawback is by Timesprout · · Score: 2, Funny

    they spent so much money on the fibre all the servers are hand me down Sinclair ZX81's.

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  8. Re:Netgear? Peh by rylin · · Score: 3, Funny

    You mean a hardware encryption device?

  9. Fiber? heh... by Esion+Modnar · · Score: 1, Funny
    My first thought was, well, it's important for regularity, so by all means, Fiber To The Dorms!

    Sometimes I make initial odd interpretations like that, such as when this guy remarked that some basketball player grew an extra foot in a year. So I said, in all seriousness, "Really? Where'd he grow it?"

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  10. Re:Err... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Note to self: Find a girl at Case Western so I can leech her connection.

  11. Re:100 MBit is good enough for anybody by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    >>You can stream live lectures to people's rooms

    yeah but wake on LAN doesn't stretch to the students....