Sometimes I notice that access to the web seems to be faster in a public computer lab than it is in my dorm room. Ball State is connected to the Internet through service providers. We are connected through a DS-3 type of circuit. Ball State currently pays for a total of 15Mbps of service through these circuits. Bandwidth describes the amount of network traffic that can be sent and received over a particular pipe.
Users are most familiar with Internet bandwidth, which is shared by all campus connections.
Careless and overuse of this resource can have a detrimental effect on all of Ball State's Internet experience. It may be that your computer is slow. It may be that you have a fast computer running too many simultaneous things. Try reducing the programs that show up in your system tray. It may also be that the bandwidth to the Internet is currently saturated.