IIT Kanpur was i of the get-go campus inwards the soil to survive completely wired up. Every hostel room, every constituent room, all labs, together with every room inwards the invitee household had an Ethernet connection. The residences inwards IIT Kanpur beingness really spread out were connected through ADSL. But ADSL could alone give download speeds of a span of Mbps. And finally, Computer Center decided that a fiber network needs to survive set inwards the residential constituent of the campus every bit well. The operate is virtually inwards its finishing stages, amongst Ethernet access enabled inwards most residences.
Big thank yous to Navpreet Singh, together with his squad at Computer Center, along amongst Prof. Amalendu Chandra, Head of CC.