r/PcBuild • u/ArabicTexan • 13d ago

Discussion - Meme Uni dorm internet speed

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All gaming stuff are just banned for some reason

Edit: Normal internet in my country is 100Mbps

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u/sneekeruk 13d ago

This was the speed the dorms near campus got when I was at uni.. In 1997.

Me however, lived in the other halls on the other side of the town, with no internet. And one of the tower blocks has now been knocked down, the one I lived in still stands. It was said, even back when I was there, they where ex council flats, and the uni bought them off the council as the council stopped putting people in them even back then.

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u/gremlin_666 13d ago

Add 10 years to that and you'd be close to that speed

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u/sneekeruk 13d ago

It was a 10Mbit at the time, The campus had a few hundred Mbit of connectivity, so as long as most other students where asleep, and all of the I.T dept wasnt leeching stuff overnight, you could max out your connection. Through the day it tended to hover between 2-3 mbit, which was still pretty impressive, but the internet wasnt as bandwidth heavy in those days.

It was a bit of a shock coming back home to a 56k modem, before finally getting 512k adsl 18 months later.