fri3nds04

Does anyone know how good the connection is at Cornell (at dorms and on campus)? I am having problem with the network (internet) connections with the connection on my current campus (community college)..

bah

Cornell's internet infrastructure is superb. That is all there is to say.

coolman123

Is the entire campus wireless?

vivace13

Almost all the campus is wireless...even sitting on the arts quad you can get internet. Not all the dorms have wireless, however. But ethernet was fine for me. I know Dickson didn't it when I was there. But looking at the wireless map http://www.cit.cornell.edu/redrover/...s/printmap.pdf it appears that it is now.

TchaikovskyPiano

Having worked on projects with my friends in Dickson, I can say that the wireless signal there is very weak, if not non-existent. Wireless coverage is fairly reliable almost everywhere else, though. I've downloaded 2GB-files in under two minutes on the Ethernet before, so internet speed is not a problem.

ResurgamBell

all the older dorms except HILC have slower ethernet connections...

wireless can be unreliable during high traffic time (prelims, finals)

best of luck

dewdrop87

I always had good luck with Cornell's wifi...CIT spent a lot of time last fall updating their servers and you can get coverage almost everywhere.

ishmaelstrom

WIFI should also be much better next year since they are combining the limitation to be 10 GB for both wired and wireless traffic -- previously students used it to download tons of GBs worth of data because the wireless did not count toward the limit; view the stopping of this as good or bad, because the connection everywhere should be more reliable because of it but there's no unlimited 'net anywhere now. :3

cataxxx

The internet infrastructure is OK, not spectacular though. My previous dorm didn't have any wireless and there were a lot of problems with the wired connection. Also, there's the 10GB limitation that they imposed starting June 2008...The good thing is you have access to the DC hub, which grants access to movies, music and school-related stuff.

tun

I don't understand why a school with billions of dollars in endowment has to charge students for internet, while state schools give kids internet and cable TV for free.

dewdrop87

It's hard to go over the 10GB limit...so really, you don't need to worry about internet charges

CayugaRed2005

It's pretty simple, really. A small percentage of users download A LOT from the Internet. We're talking terabytes. This is not free for the University and it is unfair for most users to incur the charges of a small minority.

The same holds for cable, except for the fact that most students living on campus have absolutely no need for television. So why should the majority of students -- who would never watch cable television -- pay for those that want to do so?

Prism123

by hard you mean easy, even if you only use completely legal means.

Things like streaming video and video game stuffs take up a good deal of bandwidth and can be completely legal.

That said most probably won't go over it if they don't watch a lot of streaming video.

dewdrop87

I lived on campus when we had the 2 GB limit...I used mostly legal means for video and such. I went over my limit once and received a whopping 28 cent bill that the CU bursar told me I didn't have to pay.

hermanns

If you start downloading it can be very, very easy to go over...a dvd-r movie is about 4.4 gb (to fit a single layer disc) and xbox 360 game is over 7gb alone. But uhhh, it's not like anyone would want to download anything like those anyways...