Georgia Tech Gigabit Internet

Georgia Tech, being located in Midtown Atlanta, has supposedly had gigabit internet on campus for some time now. I wanted to test the speed for myself.

To do this, I simply loaded up speedtest.net, plugged in my laptop to an ethernet port in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building (Georgia Tech’s College of Computing), and clicked “Begin Test”.

The results are in two .gif’s below: one for download speed and one for upload speed.

922.43 Mbps download and 932.64 Mbps upload. That’s awfully quick¹. To put the download speed into perspective, it’s roughly 37x faster than what my parents pay for outside of Atlanta, and about 12x faster than what my roommate and I pay for in the city.

Maybe one day soon I can get gigabit internet in my apartment since Atlanta has been targeted by Google to bring Google Fiber to parts of the city, with AT&T and Comcast soon to follow.

Needless to say, I’m excited to be using gigabit on campus during graduate school. I did a quick Google search for “georgia tech internet speed” and sure enough, I found the following statistic in a tweet:

RT @arball: those at #smskills10 that don't know - #GeorgiaTech has the second fastest internet in the world. Second only to the #Pentagon.

— Georgia Tech (@GeorgiaTech) July 29, 2010

Just a few days after my findings, someone I follow on Twitter posted his unusually high LTE download speed, so I decided to boast about GT’s speed:

@samsheffer So this isn't LTE, but check out my school's internet: pic.twitter.com/CFGt0ped0D

— Fred Hohman (@fredhohman) August 16, 2015