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How is wired network service different in the new West Campus buildings (Alice Cook/Carl Becker/Hans Bethe/William Keeton/Flora Rose)?

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How is wired network service different in the new West Campus buildings (Alice Cook/Carl Becker/Hans Bethe/William Keeton/Flora Rose)?

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There is one difference between wired network service in the new West Campus buildings and the service elsewhere on campus. 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. Wired network service 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 some still include a 10/100 card as the default Ethernet card.