Fiber To The Dorm Room

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."

Comments

it time...

[millahtime]

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.

Re:Over-wired?

[Trigun]

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.

Re:obligatory

[Patrik_AKA_RedX]

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?)

Re:Over-wired?

[WindBourne]

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.

so who will ever need more than....

[millahtime]

And no one will ever need more than 640k.