{"id":4892,"date":"2013-05-02T13:21:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T18:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=4892"},"modified":"2016-06-29T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T19:03:08","slug":"the-data-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=4892","title":{"rendered":"the data dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m planning to go to UC. Do you know if students can get their own wifi plans in a (dormitory style) residence? Do you know anyone who does? I am a computer engineering student and have a couple projects that require high bandwidth and data usage.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<br \/>\nAdrian<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Hi Adrian,<\/p>\n<p>So I don&#8217;t know about getting your own plan, nor do I know anyone who one, but omg, I&#8217;ve been trying to research your question for ages.<\/p>\n<p>Then I just gave up and asked someone from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineering.utoronto.ca\/Future_Students\/Undergraduate_Studies.htm\" target=\"_blank\">engineering<\/a> for help.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, after chatting with that person and then two other engis, you&#8217;ll be happy to hear that there won&#8217;t be any need for your internet plan. No one&#8217;s ever had a problem with a lack of data or bandwith, so what the university supplies for you should suffice.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, if you&#8217;re in engineering, you actually get access to a lot of buildings at all hours including the science hotspot Bahen Centre that has the engi lounge or whatever it is where you can find a bunch of computers and tired stressed students. So if you accidentally use up what the university allows you from <a href=\"http:\/\/25.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_m9l6qzzkhZ1qbxnzho1_500.gif\" target=\"_blank\">too much streaming<\/a>, you can always go there. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, I&#8217;m planning to go to UC. Do you know if students can get their own wifi plans in a (dormitory style) residence? Do you know anyone who does? I am a computer engineering student and have a couple projects that require high bandwidth and data usage. Thanks, Adrian \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Hi Adrian, So I don&#8217;t know about getting your own plan, nor do I know anyone who one, but omg, I&#8217;ve been trying to research your question for ages. Then I just gave up and asked someone from engineering for help. Basically, after chatting with that person and then two other engis, you&#8217;ll be happy to hear that there won&#8217;t be any need for your internet plan. No one&#8217;s ever had a problem with a lack of data or bandwith, so what the university supplies for you should suffice. Likewise, if you&#8217;re in engineering, you actually get access to a lot of buildings at all hours including the science hotspot Bahen Centre that has the engi lounge or whatever it is where you can find a bunch of computers and tired stressed students. So if you accidentally use up what the university allows you from too much streaming, you can always go there. \ud83d\ude42 Cheers! aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}