Sunday, November 16, 2008
Carnegie Mellon University Validates Production 802.11n Network
prweb: "Carnegie Mellon University's Wireless Andrew network was one of the first campus-wide wireless networks in the world and has been in operation since 1994. Today, Wireless Andrew 2.0 provides service to over 14,000 students, faculty, and staff across the university's main campus."
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I really do like the new network. I've found that I'm getting far fewer drags in performance especially when allot of people are on the network at the same time. File transfers are also faster letting me use my afs space much more with even larger files.
I didn't know we had a new network, but I'm glad it works. I think it's a really great wireless system, even though I don't really know all that much about that stuff. It doesn't seem to go down very often. In that respect, I think CMU does live up to its reputation for being technologically advanced. Now if only Trogdor and Kyocera would work at the same time for more than 3 days...
Its not very surprising that CMU was one of the first to integrate this. Though I don't really know much about it, and I don't think I have an n capable card... But it will be interesting to see if and just how long it takes wireless to replace wired networking, if it will ever be as fast.
after coming from an undergrad institution with limited wireless capabilities, it's nice to have such a far-reaching and reliable network at my fingertips. it sounds like CMU is doing its part to stay up to date on advancements in this area.
the new network has been in place since the summer. but i guess it's been only recently that they've opened it up to full speed.
speaking of full speed - i was getting around 6MB/s on my WiFi connection over the weekend. for those who don't know, that's FAST!!!!!!11111
the radiation arrays they've installed in some buildings also provide great coverage, and the smaller 3-antenna APs aren't so bad either.
One of my requirements on my college search was campus-wide wireless. You'd be surprised how many college campuses still have wireless hot spots as opposed to campus-wide coverage. I'm always amazed at how advanced Carnegie Mellon is at the little things. I'm going to have to watch my bandwidth more closely now because I tend to leave file transfers on in the background while I do other things.
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