Well I must add my inquiries are nothing to be taken away from Western. I am just curious on how to get something like this to happen at my school, the college of new jersey that is. We have about 4 thousand people living on campus and with these 4 thousand all we have is a 63 Mbps connection symmetrical. With that being said it is not even enough on some bad nights and some people aren’t even able to sign on to AIM. To starts something like this at my school would be close to impossible in my eyes being that our college internet would need to be highly upgraded in order to supply a server which can hold people connecting into it. As new jersey had a giant budget cut last year there is not much money floating around campus to supply us with support on upgrading. This past school year we went from 48 Mbps to 63Mbps (In their eyes that is a big jump, in the comp nerd eyes its pathetic. To break it down we always have a 170 kb cap on our asses and at night time when everyone is using the internet we are limitted by the total bandwidth to about 25 kb. I know what you are thinking…EW.) The only way to do this would be to raise a ton of money, which again is pretty tough. But again, I’m not attempting to take anything away from wcu. I’m a lazy kid and the last kid to start anything like this at my school. I just get curious on how a feat like this was accomplished. All in all, though, it would be pretty cool to be like adam and others and be god of a college server and to be the founder of something this badass. So this is both an inquiry and some serious props to you kids at WCU. Go you guys
How many meg is your internet connection and how many on your campus?