[committee] [wheel] internet access for astronomy conference

[Cameron Patrick]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:51:56PM +0800, Scott Young wrote:

> UCC's Bright link (the non-AARNet one) is burstable to something like
> 3Mbps, IIRC, but considering that some club members think it's too
> slow for general use in the clubroom, I don't know how suitable it
> would be for a couple of hundred users.

It's only 128kbit (or 64kbit?) of guaranteed bandwidth.  Often it
doesn't even feel like that much.  It's usually pretty good when there
are no college students around, though ... (not sure if this will or
won't be the case when the conference is being held)

Cameron