More fun internet facts about Wisconsin educational internet connectivity.

The average broadband home user has an internet connection in the 1 Mega bit per second (Mbps) to 5 Mbps range.  The average WiscNet customer [that relies on a private telecom] has a 20 Mbps connection to WiscNet.  Below is a list of customers with 20Mbps of internet service. -4- of our two years UWs only have 20Mbps of service.  These entire institutions are sharing an internet pipe that is only 4 to 20 times larger than a single family home.  Some of them have hundreds if not thousands of users.

[excuse the crazy shorthand.  You're smart and will figure it out]

aurorauniv - enrollment - 4000+!
brillionsd - enrollment - 300
easternshoreslib
elkhornsd
facesspringssd
glendaleriverhillssd
jeffersonsd
lakemillssd
lakeshoreslib
lakeshoretc-wilm
mapledalesd
marianuniv
markesansd
mukwonagosd
poynettesd
raymondsd
sheboyganco
sheboyganfallssd
stonebanksd
uwcfonddulac - enrollment - 700+
uwcmanitowoc - enrollment - 600+
uwcsheboygan - enrollment - 800+
uwcwashingtonco - enrollment - 1100+
waterfordgradedsd

uwc enrollment data from:
http://media.journalinteractive.com/images/UWCOLLEGES.jpg

There are those that reach Wiscnet with community owned fiber optic cabling.  They connect to WiscNet at either 1,000 Mbps or 10,000 Mbps.  Their price is fixed either way.  The more you use, the lower your per unit costs.  These higher internet speeds are more appropriate when educating hundreds or thousands of tomorrow's citizens, enabling our schools to take advantage of real time distance education and other high tech learning activities.

For the real geeks, here are some more usage graphs for some of the above mentioned WiscNet members.  All of this data is publicly accessible.

1) Aurora University increased their internet pipe from 10 Mbps to 20 Mbps in Feb 2010.  The connection immediately filled, and has been stuck at 20 Mbps since.  They could easily use more internet bandwidth.

http://www.eng.wiscnet.net/stats/cgi-bin/genstatspage.pl?width=750&height=200&rrdfunc=MAX&rrdfile=%2Fvar%2Fflows%2Frrds%2FifOctets%2Fr-uwmilwaukee-isp.wiscnet.net_xe-1-2-0-1462_ifOctets.rrd&time=2+years+ago&start_time=06%2F26%2F2006++5%3A04%3A07+PM&end_time=now&lower_limit=&upper_limit=

2) BrillionSD, enrollment of ~300.  Easily filling their 20 Mbps of service.

http://www.eng.wiscnet.net/stats/cgi-bin/genstatspage.pl?width=750&height=200&rrdfunc=MAX&rrdfile=%2Fvar%2Fflows%2Frrds%2FifOctets%2Fr-uwmilwaukee-isp.wiscnet.net_xe-1-2-0-577_ifOctets.rrd&time=2+years+ago&start_time=06%2F26%2F2009++5%3A06%3A16+PM&end_time=now&lower_limit=&upper_limit=100M

3) Four UWCs, with an average enrollment of 800 each, again, need way more than 20 Mbps of service.

http://www.eng.wiscnet.net/stats/cgi-bin/genstatspage.pl?width=750&height=200&rrdfunc=MAX&rrdlist=20240&time=2+years+ago&start_time=06%2F25%2F2011++5%3A08%3A09+PM&end_time=now&lower_limit&upper_limit

You might think these are opinions, but as someone working in the field, these, simply, are facts.