As of Thursday February 2nd 2012, Gustavus now has a much faster Internet connection.
Gustavus now has a one gigabit connection to the ISP Hurricane Electric.
To give some historical context, prior to the upgrade we had a 300Mbps connection.
In December 2010 we upgraded from 200Mbps to 250Mbps.
In January 2009 we upgraded from 100Mbps to 150Mbps.
So, in summary, our connection to the Internet is now very very fast.
We get to that connection over a redundant gigabit connection between Gustavus and a data center in Minneapolis. If Hurricane Electric’s connection stops working, we will switch back to our old provider (Global Crossing.) So Gustavus’s connection to the Internet should be very reliable, because we know that our users are increasingly dependent on “cloud services” such as google calendar, dropbox, and facebook.
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