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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. Cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    More warez and pr0n/...fp!!

  2. Dupe! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    See here

    Steven.

  3. DUPE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Michael posted this shit last week....

  4. moD up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    continue5 tobChew

  5. Re:why the need for this? by The_reformant · · Score: -1, Troll

    i hope that post was supposed to be sarcastic or something and that your not really suggesting imposing draconian measures as to what students are/are not allowed to do with/install on their computers.. Loser!

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  6. Re:why the need for this? by AKnightCowboy · · Score: -1, Troll
    512MB of RAM is understandable, 1GB is not necessary. College students should be doing research and writing papers. IE/Moz/etc and a word processor do not require that much RAM.

    I disagree. Battlefield 1942 will happily suck up over 450 megabytes of memory so you really need 768MB-1GB of RAM to play it without lagging. As for research... I don't know about CWRU, but where I went to school it was about having fun, meeting new people, drinking and partying. You'd have to be an uber-nerd to friggin spend your college life doing research and writing papers!

  7. Gigabit bandwidth to every dorm room, all sharing by voxel · · Score: 0, Troll

    Gigabit bandwidth to every dorm room, all sharing a single 56k modem connected at 28.8k (bad line quality).

    Hey, at least they can send porn and mp3 files around quickly to eachother!

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