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How is ResNet service different in the new West Campus residence halls (Alice Cook/Carl Becker/Hans Bethe)?

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How is ResNet service different in the new West Campus residence halls (Alice Cook/Carl Becker/Hans Bethe)?

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There is one difference between ResNet service in the new West Campus residence halls and ResNet service elsewhere. The network infrastructure and hardware used in these residence halls has been installed to support Gigabit Ethernet. This is the next step up in network speed from 100 Megabits per second (Mbps) service, which was previously the highest speed available with ResNet. ResNet subscribers in these residences who wish to use Gigabit networking speeds have the option to do so, if they have the necessary hardware. More and more computers are shipping with Ethernet cards which support Gigabit Ethernet, but many still include a 10/100 card as the default Ethernet card.