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What do I need to know about my network connections? Penn's College Houses are wired for high-speed network performance, allowing for speeds of up to 10 Megabits per second (Mbps) to your computer. The residential network is separate from the rest of campus, with 255 Mbps of external Internet connectivity allocated for connections. The load on other servers to which you are connecting, or through which your data travels, will have an impact on the actual speed of your connections. There is a rate cap for each individual ResNet user on network traffic uploaded from computers. Each IP address has an upload cap of 400 kilobits per second, allowing for a periodic burst of 800 kilobits per second. This means that a user who is uploading a large amount of data will not affect the transfer speeds of other users. There is a cumulative upload cap for the sum of all ResNet connections. If you were to multiply 400 kilobits per second with the number of active connections, you would far exceed the total amount of bandwidth allocated. The cumulative upload cap simply scales down bandwidth rates uniformly at times of peak usage. While a cap is in place for uploads, there is no cap on downloads. Transfers within campus (from one building to another) are not restricted by the upload cap. Only data sent from your computer to a computer outside the University may be limited by the upload cap. Previous | Next |
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