Faster Internet:  Springfield Internet increased from 20Mb to 30Mb.

April 3, 2001

Due to continued rises in Internet usage, Missouri State University Networking submitted a request to MOREnet yesterday to have our Springfield Internet bandwidth increased from 20Mb to 30Mb.  This request was granted today and all users now have the potential of experiencing even faster Internet access for all applications.

All users at Springfield, Mt. Grove, and Lebanon share this specific connection to the Internet.  Chart-recorder style utilization charts for Springfield Internet are available online along with many other utilization charts.  All charts reporting bandwidth do so using bytes (instead of bits) per second.

Since our Internet connection is ATM cell based instead of Ethernet packet based, there is some loss of usable bandwidth.  We usually receive about 87% efficiency on this translation which means our real throughput went from about 16.8Mb per second of useable bandwidth to about 26Mb per second of useable bandwidth.

Please direct any questions or comments to Mark Harsen or any of the other Networking staff.