<p>Similar to this thread at CMU, </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=166127[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=166127</a></p>
<p>I’m curious about the internet connection at Cornell. Wires/wireless? And how fast download/upload?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance :P</p>
<p>The connection is fast and reliable, but unfortuately wireless access is limited. It is not available throughout the entire campus, meaning you can’t just walk outside with your laptop, sit out on the quad, and check your email. It’s not even available in some dorms (although I hear they are working to change that). Wireless is available in all libraries, student centers, and many academic buildings.</p>
<p>Yeah, wireless internet here is currently a problem. It should be fixed soon though.</p>
<p>In Your Room - ResNet </p>
<p>ResNet (“The Residential Hall Network Service”) provides one ethernet connection per student in his or her room. Your computer should already have an ethernet port in it if it was purchased within the last four or five years. If you’re not sure, look for a port that looks like a phone jack but is a little bit wider.</p>
<p>Your ResNet connection is rolled into your housing cost and includes unlimited download and upload to on-campus locations and 5 gigabytes of traffic per month to and from off-campus locations. Currently, CIT charges $0.0015 per extra megabyte (~$1.50 per extra gigabyte) of off-campus traffic beyond your 5 gigabyte limit. The vast majority (about 85%) of ResNet users never exceed the 5 gigabyte limit.</p>
<p>The Student Assembly has provided music downloads for free through Napster for the past two years, and since much of that music is stored on on-campus servers, it doesn’t count against your 5 gigabyte limit.</p>
<p>On the go - Red Rover Wireless Service</p>
<p>Red Rover is what Cornell calls its wireless internet service. If your laptop has a WiFi (802.11b or 802.11g) card built in, you won’t need to plug in to get online while you move about the campus. Most buildings on central campus, most residence halls on North Campus, and almost all libraries have Red Rover available already. CIT is constantly expanding the Red Rover network. A full description of Red Rover locations is available here. As a side note, Red Rover does not count against your 5 gigabyte monthly limit, and there is no additional charge to use the service. </p>
<p>Public Ports </p>
<p>Some libraries and buildings provide ethernet ports for students to plug in to for no additional cost. Duffield Hall in the engineering quad is one such building that provides public ports in its numerous study nooks. </p>
<p>Off Campus </p>
<p>As a first year student, it’s likely that you will be living on campus, but many students choose to live off campus during their careers at Cornell. Time Warner Cable provides cable internet access at normal market prices to many students living around campus.</p>
<p>So we’re limited to 5gb for both uploading and downloading? Or are they separate?</p>
<p>From Arjun’s description, it seems that its 5Gb bandwidth total.</p>
<p>Two questions Arjun:</p>
<p>1) Is this 5 gigabyte or gigabits?
2) Can you use “Red Rover” inside dorms instead of ethernet? And if so, it won’t count against the 5gb limit, correct?</p>
<p>In college life, Towerpumpkin posted:
“4855 kbps down, 8348 kbps up at Cornell. My dorm has one of the slower Internet connections, too.”</p>
<p>(It was measured from <a href=“http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/[/url]”>http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/</a> )</p>
<p>That sure beats my internet connection. lol</p>
<p>Your turn =P</p>
<p>raghavvp,
<p>WOO HOO 600th post!</p>
<p>Hi SchoolDuh06010!</p>
<p>Thanks Arjun.
About (2), I was just wondering because I sort of am a heavy internet user (at least 50GB/month) and if I have to spend additional money to get that much bandwidth, it might be a deterrent against choosing Cornell over Penn or Northwestern.</p>
<p>As long as you stay om-campus then you won’t be charged anything, just don’t go off-campus</p>
<p>Meestasi: your post is unclear to me. On-campus wise, if I were to use RedRover, I won’t be charged anything for “heavy” use? And shouldn’t the Cornell network not be available off-campus anyway?</p>
<p>Heavy for this post means >5GB</p>
<p>Wait, so from what I gather from meestasi, as long as you’re on campus you won’t be charged for your internet connection (download as much as you want), and if you’re off campus you have a limit of 5gb/month?</p>
<p>gah I’m a bit confused.</p>
<p>Yes, that’s exactly what I meant. You have unlimited bandwidth if you’re on-campus while using resnet. And if you’re off campus, they have a 5 gb limit on uploading and downloading.</p>
<p>I see. Thanks for clearing that up :)</p>
<p>meestasi: I was under the impression (from Arjun’s post and my own research) that Cornell limited the amount of bandwidth going to the “Internet” (read outside Cornell’s intranet) to 5GB. </p>
<p>Is being on the Cornell intranet mean “on-campus” in your previous post?</p>
<p>The 5 gb limit is for outwards traffic…i.e. to and from computers NOT connected through Cornell. Raghavp, how do you use 50GB per month? Is it from downloading media (i.e. music, movies, tv shows, etc.)? If so, we have a DC++ hub running where you can find pretty much everything you want…currently there’s 19.7TB of stuff shared (though a lot of it is redundant) by over 500 people.</p>
<p>Just to clear things up a bit. If you live in a dorm and use resnet (the ethernet system) you have the 5 gb limit for non-cornell affilate web traffic. You can also use redrover (the wireless service) in your room if you dorm is set up for wireless and you can get a signal. On that network, you won’t be charged for heavy use. Cornell has nothing to do with your internet if you live off campus.</p>
<p>Wait, do you mean transfers to and from on-campus locations? I can get that you wouldn’t be charged if you’re using resnet in your dorm to download a file from someone else in resnet at Cornell, but what if you’re downloading from a server in california or something, but you yourself are in resnet, would you be charged?</p>
<p>towerpumpkin: The funny thing is, I don’t download a single <strong>illegal</strong> file. All my traffic deals with downloading source-code and binary forms of various open-source software.
Oh, and then I share that using Bittorrent.</p>
<p>fs: That’s correct. Let me explain (what I understand). Any file you might get from Resnet doesn’t count towards the monthly limit. Anything outside (Google, outside BitTorrent, etc) will count towards your 5GB limit. You won’t be charged unless you go over the 5GB limit.</p>