Eli5: How do large properties/campuses have such large bandwidths for internet

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How are they able to support thousands of users at one time? I do a speed test and they aren’t like fiber optics level of speeds so how can they have so many users at one time? Is it because there are so many routers placed around the area? But even when I’m on campus I don’t see any wireless routers outside.

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Colleges and Universities were among the first organizations to have internet access

They are often their own ISPs in a sense with fiber optics tied directly into the internet backbone.

So they can have gigabits of dedicated bandwidth available.

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