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As a college student it's hilarious how big the discrepancy is between residential on-campus broadband and off-campus housing "broadband". While in the dorms, I
by loser777 13y ago
As a college student it's hilarious how big the discrepancy is between residential on-campus broadband and off-campus housing "broadband". While in the dorms, I measured around 600mbps down/200mbps up (this service didn't seem to add any considerable amount to housing cost). I now live the same distance from my classes/buildings, but technically off-campus and pay $53 a month for 5mbps down/768k up DSL. Usually I would have the slightly better (but still terrible option) of 20mbps down cable, but another cable provider has a monopoly on my apartment building. I stick to DSL because that's actually the better option, believe it or not.
This isn't even in some remote area of the US or something like that. (Westwood, Los Angeles, California.)
- sliverstorm 13y agothis service didn't seem to add any considerable amount to housing cost It's rolled into tuition. The dorm access is basically a hangers-on to the typical University model, wherein the school acts as its own ISP with a direct tap into the infrastructure.
- quink 13y agoIt's funny because fibre is near enough cheaper to maintain and run than copper is these days. It's just that the copper is already there and the telco that'll say 'go capex blast-off' when you're not going to pay them thousands of dollars in some way or another is a rare telco indeed.