Fiber To The Dorm Room · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 2, 2004 @12:46AM 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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Re:obligatory by aixou · 2004-06-02 01:40 · Score: 0, Redundant

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.

Gigabit ethernet != time compressor. Three hours is still three hours. Unless the network hardware they're selling is a flux capacitor, three hours of porn will still take you three hours to watch. And since when is 100Mbit/s not fast enough to stream high quality video anyway?